AMD’s GPUs compete with NVIDIA, which is also expected to refresh at CES.
“As consumers and professionals increasingly recognize the productivity benefits of AI PCs, AMD continues to extend its performance leadership in the market,” said Jack Haven, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group. ” Press release. “With the next generation of AI-powered processors, we’re extending AI to devices everywhere, and bringing the power of a workstation to a thin and light laptop.”
The Radeon RX 9070 series is built on the RDNA 4 architecture.
Radeon 9000 series GPUs are designed to handle AI workloads.
The first two cards in the series, Radeon 9070 XT and Ryzen 9070, will be available in hardware from Acer, Asus and other manufacturers. Details about the new series are limited, but the RDNA architecture — built on a 4nm manufacturing process — promises significant advances. GPUs are expected to improve AI computing, offer better media encoding capabilities, and provide better ray tracing for gaming and graphics creation.
Not much information is available about the Radeon RX 9070 series yet. However, AMD said that more than 100 enterprise platform brands will use AMD Pro technology by 2025.
The company also announced the Ryzen 9000 HX series, which includes the beefy Ryzen 9950X3D for gaming and content creation.
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Ryzen AI Max and others bring AI performance to laptops.
Overall, there continues to be a significant focus on Ryzen. AI PC productsIncluding the third-generation AMD Ryzen AI and Ryzen AI 300 Pro series processors announced at CES.
These chips compete with Qualcomm’s and Intel’s Copilot+ PC processors. AMD claims that the Ryzen AI 7 350 and Ryzen AI 5 340 perform At 50 tops in peak performance. Options range from the 6-core, 12-thread AI Max Pro 380 to the 16-core, 32-thread AI Max/AI Max Pro 395 build. The AI Max and AI Max Pro series offer up to 256 GB/s bandwidth. HP and Asus are set to sell laptops and mini-workstations equipped with these chips.
AMD announced the AI Max and AI Max Pro series of processors for gaming, scheduled for the first half of 2025. While mobile gaming may be the primary use case, these heavy-duty graphics engines can find their way into compact workstations for graphic designers, gamers. Developers, and other graphics professional use cases.
Ryzen Z2 and Ryzen 200 processors are coming soon.
AMD’s other announcements at CES 2025 include:
- The Ryzen Z2 series for handheld PC gaming is available in the first quarter of 2025.
- Ryzen 200 Series processors for IT environments and other mainstream commercial uses are available in the second quarter of 2025.
“AMD Ryzen CPUs offer the best TCO. [total cost of ownership]Delivering exceptional performance and performance,” said Robert Cochem, global portfolio manager for digital workplace at Shell, in an AMD press kit.