CES 2026 Day 2: Dell’s massive 52-inch 6K monitor, AMD unbothered by Intel’s new Arc B390 IGP, MSI PSUs guard against RTX 5090 meltdowns

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Day 2 coverage show that the war of performance (and words) is still going strong between Intel and AMD

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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is well underway in Las Vegas, Nevada, and you can see our previous coverage of Day 0 and Day 1. We're now on to Day 2, with plenty of news still pouring out of the show.

Monitors are a big draw at CES

MSI MPG 341CQR QD-OLED X36

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On the productivity side, the UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor measures 52 inches across, with a 6K resolution (6,144 x 2,560) and a maximum 120 Hz refresh rate. The monitor can support up to four PCs simultaneously and includes a Thunderbolt 4 port, four USB-A ports, three USB-C ports, two HDMI 2.1 ports, and two DisplayPort 1.4 ports.

Dell has priced the UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor at $2,899. For comparison, Apple's 32-inch 6K (6,016 x 3,384) monitor costs $4,999 without a stand.

Intel's Arc B390 looks impressive in early benchmarks, but AMD isn't worried at all

Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) processors promise huge performance gains while keeping power efficiency in check. But Intel hasn't just focused on the CPU; its latest Xe3 graphics also deliver healthy performance gains over Xe2.

We had a chance to sample an early system with a Core Ultra X9 388H processor, which includes the 12-core Arc B390 IGP. We saw nearly 100 fps in F1 (High, XeSS Balanced), over 80 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 (High, XeSS Balanced), and roughly 57.4 fps in Spider-Man 2 (High, XeSS Quality).

A Panther Lake test system.

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That said, when we spoke with AMD representatives at CES about Xe3/Arc B390 performance, they seemed unbothered. Rahul Tikoo, AMD's SVP and GM of Client Product Group, stated, "Strix Halo, or Ryzen AI Max will kill it. [...] It's not even a fair fight at that point, because it's discrete-level graphics." He went on to throw in more jabs at Intel, adding, "There's a reason why they didn't compare it right there. [...] they compared their highest-end to our midpoint. And, oh, by the way, that 12 Xe [Panther Lake]... Wait until you see the price point on that. It's gonna be, you know. Enough said."

Game on!

Everything else from the show floor during Day 2

Here's the rest of the hot tech that we got a chance to take a look at on Day 2.

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Brandon Hill is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware. He has written about PC and Mac tech since the late 1990s with bylines at AnandTech, DailyTech, and Hot Hardware. When he is not consuming copious amounts of tech news, he can be found enjoying the NC mountains or the beach with his wife and two sons.