Image AMD Not to make Nvidia any more fun, AMD's CPU slate is expanding significantly in early 2025. Team Red has gaming and graphics in mind, with its long-awaited Zen 5 chip, Ryzen 9 X3D, to reign supreme – Gaming PCs powered by the latter's all-new RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9700 cards are intended to compete with Nvidia's mid-range offerings, although we'll have to wait longer for any hints if AMD wants to compete in the realm. of high-end GPUs.
The two new AMD CPUs are the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D. The first is a 12-core, 24-thread design with up to 5.5 Ghz boost and 140 MB cache. The new top-end AMD consumer CPUs feature 16 cores and 32 threads with With a frequency of 5.7 Ghz and a cache of 144 MB, we are interested in the Ryzen 9 laptop chip. The all-new 9955HX3D is exclusive, featuring the same threads, cores, and TDP as high-end desktop chips.
Team Red fans are raving about AMD's new top-end gaming CPU, the top-end Ryzen 9 9950X3D, which gets a boost from Zen 4, promising more than 20% better in-game performance in games like Hogwarts Heritage and Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines 2 Compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, however, you won't see much difference between the two in this type of game. Black Legend Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077According to the chip manufacturer The comparison between the two chips is even clearer with performance benchmarks, with a 13% improvement in Geekbench 6 scores and a 16% improvement in Cinebench 2024.
Intel's latest Arrow Lake desktop chips struggle with gaming performance Even when compared to Intel's 14th generation chips, AMD's proposed benchmark claims it can beat the Intel Core Ultra 285K by varying degrees, although AMD says it can take in 41% more frames. Final Fantasy XIV and another 45% in far cry 6– Intel just launched a new version of its Arrow Lake architecture with the Core Ultra H- and HX series, and we'll have to see more apples-to-apples comparisons down the road.
Both new desktop chips will launch in the first quarter of 2025. The laptop-focused HX3D has a more vague time frame of the first half of 2025. We'll have to wait several months first. Where will we see chips on this year's slate? or gaming laptop
Consumer desktops on the other side are getting some love from the new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT cards. If the names of these cards remind you of Nvidia's latest cards, that's because that's on purpose. The company says it is pushing the name to compete with the RTX 4070 and also be consistent with the naming conventions on AMD's high-end CPUs. The first AMD Radeon RDNA 4 is intended to provide better ray tracing and processing capabilities. AI results with a confirmed 4nm process, not 3nm as previously rumored. Additionally, AMD says it plans to update the AI upscaler from FSR 3.5 to FSR 4, which should provide 4K upscaling at better
There isn't much to do. But the chipmaker promised to provide more details closer to the launch in the first quarter of this year.
AMD's Ryzen Z1 is one of the more popular RDNA 3 chips for mobile devices, and AMD has confirmed that a Ryzen Z2 is just around the corner. The top-end Z2 Extreme, which still uses RDNA 3, will have an 8-core configuration. With 16 threads and a 5 GHz frequency, the Z2 Extreme is also capable of a TDP of 15-35 W, compared to the regular Z2's 15-30 W. The “extreme” part of the name is actually reflected in the number of graphics cores—16 cores in total, besides. This also has the Z2 Go. It's a more limited chip with four cores, eight threads and a boost up to 4.3 GHz. The last chip seems destined for the Lenovo Legion Go S portable PC.
The company has dropped a few hints that Lenovo's Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally, and even Valve's Steam Deck could be looking at the Z2 Extreme in 2025. The Steam Deck currently uses a custom chip based on Zen 2 architecture.
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