AMD in the present day introduced quite a lot of new CPU fashions throughout its CES 2025 presentation. The corporate additionally gave a quick glimpse of its upcoming desktop graphics in addition to the subsequent era of FSR picture upscaling.
Beginning with the CPUs, AMD introduced two new Ryzen 9000 collection desktop processors. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the Ryzen 9 9900X3D are variants of the 9950X and the 9900X however with the corporate’s 3D V-cache expertise that gives larger gaming efficiency by a considerably bigger cache dimension.
In comparison with the earlier era 7950X3D, AMD claims the 9950X3D gives on common 8% sooner efficiency in video games whereas being 20% sooner than Intel’s newest Core Extremely 9 285K. The efficiency can be corresponding to the 9800X3D so for those who don’t require the extra cores of the 9950X3D for productiveness duties then you might be higher off simply getting the 9800X3D for gaming.
Subsequent, AMD additionally introduced updates for its Ryzen Z collection of chips, that are present in handheld gaming PCs such because the ASUS ROG Ally or the Lenovo Legion Go. The brand new era is led by the Ryzen Z2 Excessive on the high, which relies on the identical ‘Strix Level’ structure as AMD’s latest pocket book chips. The Z2 Excessive could have 8 cores, which ought to characteristic a mix of Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores, together with an up to date RDNA 3.5 GPU with 16 graphics cores.
Take a step right down to the Ryzen Z2 and you might be again in acquainted territory as you might be getting what appears to be only a rebranded Ryzen Z1 Excessive. This implies there’s 8 Zen 4 cores with 12 RDNA 3 graphics cores. Lastly, there’s a brand new mannequin within the collection known as Ryzen Z2 Go, which options a fair older Zen 3+ CPU with solely 4 cores together with an RDNA 2 GPU with 12 graphics cores. It’s somewhat irritating that there’s such a substantial distinction underneath the hood of those three chips which can be in any other case underneath the identical branding however that’s nothing new for AMD’s cellular chip division.
Talking of cellular chips, AMD additionally introduced three new Ryzen 9000HX Collection processors for high-performance gaming notebooks. This consists of the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, which is the one one within the collection to have 3D V-cache. There’s additionally the 9955HX with out the V-cache however the identical 16-cores and eventually the 9850HX with 12 cores.
The corporate additionally introduced an infinite array of Ryzen AI Max, Ryzen AI Max PRO, Ryzen AI 300, Ryzen AI 300 PRO, and two new Ryzen 200, and Ryzen 200 PRO collection chips, all of that are too quite a few to explain right here.
Ryzen cellular chips
AMD additionally briefly revealed its upcoming RDNA 4 primarily based Radeon 9000 collection graphics playing cards. The corporate teased the Radeon 9070XT and the Radeon 9070, which can be obtainable in Q1 2025 from quite a lot of board companions. These will compete instantly in opposition to Nvidia’s RTX 5070 and RTX 5070 Ti, which must be introduced later in the present day throughout Nvidia’s CES keynote.
Radeon 9000 collection
On a closing notice, AMD additionally revealed that the subsequent era FSR4 expertise can be powered by machine studying, very similar to DLSS and XeSS, and that it’s developed particularly for the corporate’s RDNA 4 primarily based graphics processors. Not way more data is obtainable at current.
