AMD has formally introduced its CES 2025 occasion, which guarantees to carry the “subsequent technology of innovation throughout gaming.” The occasion is about to be held Monday, January 6 at 11 am PT (2 pm ET/7 pm GMT) and can be live-streamed.
The corporate is anticipated to unveil its next-gen gaming GPU lineup, based mostly on the RDNA 4 structure. Whereas AMD has been lagging behind Nvidia by way of being the perfect graphics card obtainable, it’s hoped that AMD will no less than be capable to supply some respectable competitors within the mid-range GPU market. The corporate can also be anticipated to unveil its new AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU on the occasion, and probably its new Ryzen Z2 Excessive chip for handhelds.
In a submit on X (previously Twitter), Jack Huynh, senior vp and normal supervisor of computing and graphics at AMD, additionally talked about “AI PC” within the announcement. This might discuss with a few of subsequent 12 months’s chips, that are codenamed AMD Strix Halo, boasting superior synthetic intelligence efficiency with the neural processor unit (NPU) onboard.
Nevertheless, on the gaming entrance, these chips are additionally reported to have an enormous built-in GPU (iGPU). A leak again in November indicated that AMD plans to equip the “Radeon 8000S” GPU with the upgraded RDNA 3.5 structure and as much as 40 compute items.
For comparability, the Radeon 890M, the headlining iGPU within the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, has 16 compute items, whereas the iGPU present in {hardware} working the 7840U or Z1 Excessive has simply 12.
The corporate can also be anticipated to carry the lid on its new RDNA 4 graphics playing cards. The rumored new AMD Radeon RX 8800 XT is claimed to be 45% quicker by way of ray tracing over the past technology, and allegedly matches Nvidia’s RTX 4080 in sure specs.
Final 12 months AMD went all in on AI at CES, exhibiting off the Ryzen 8000G chips and 8040 cell chips. These all got here with NPUs, and that is more likely to be a continued focus for AMD.
Whereas final 12 months’s AMD CES bulletins weren’t significantly gaming-centric, with next-generation {hardware} within the wings, it could possibly be a extra thrilling CES for PC avid gamers this 12 months.
Valve has mentioned that it’s ready for a correct generational leap earlier than contemplating a successor to the present greatest gaming handheld, the Steam Deck. CES 2025 could possibly be the primary time we get a correct glimpse at that kind of {hardware}, in addition to its new GPUs.
