AMD’s image will not allow Nvidia to have all the fun, AMD’s CPU slate is greatly expanded in 2025. The Red Team has gaming and graphics in mind with the long-awaited Zen 5, Ryzen 9 X3D chips to take the top spot. – Powerful gaming PCs. After that, the new RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9700 cards are designed to compete against Nvidia’s mid-range offerings, although we will have to wait a long time for any advice if AMD wants to compete in the area of ​​high-end GPUs. .
AMD’s two new CPUs include the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and 9950X3D. The former is a 12-core, 24-thread configuration with 5.5 Ghz max boost and 140 MB cache. The new end of AMD CPUs for consumers includes 16 cores and 32 threads with a frequency of 5.7 Ghz and a cache of 144 MB. We really like the laptop’s new Ryzen 9 9955HX3D chip. It has the same thread, core, and TDP as a high-end desktop chip
Team Red fans have been clamoring for a look at AMD’s new high-end gaming CPU. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D is boosted from Zen 4. It promises more than 20% better game performance in games like Hogwarts Legacy again Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 compared to the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. However, you won’t see much of a difference between the two in a game like this The Dark Legend Wukong or Cyberpunk 2077according to the chip manufacturer. The benchmarks between the two chips are the strongest in the production benchmarks, with Geekbench 6 scores 13% better and Cinebench 2024 16% better.
Intel’s latest Arrow Lake desktop chips have struggled in gaming performance, even compared to Intel’s 14th-gen chips. AMD’s proposed benchmarks say they beat the Intel Core Ultra 285K by varying degrees, although AMD said it can get 41% more frames. Final Fantasy XIV and 45% more FarCry 6. Intel recently released new versions of its Arrow Lake architecture with the Core Ultra H- and HX series, and we’ll need to see more apples-to-apples comparisons down the road.
Both new desktop chips will come out sometime in the first quarter of 2025. The laptop-centric HX3D has a vague time window of the first half of 2025. We will have to wait many months before we see the chip in this year’s slide. for gaming laptops.
The other end of consumer desktops will also get some love with the new Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT cards. If the names of these cards remind you of Nvidia’s latest, it’s because that’s on purpose. The company said it’s pushing the names to compete with the RTX 4070 and align with AMD’s high-end CPU naming convention. The first AMD Radeon RDNA 4 is designed to offer better ray tracing capabilities and AI processing capabilities with a proven 4nm process, not 3nm as previously rumored. Additionally, AMD said it plans to update its top AI from FSR 3.5 to FSR 4. That should provide better 4K upscaling.
Not much has been made, but the chip maker has promised to provide more details closer to the release, sometime in Q1 this year.
AMD’s Ryzen Z1 is one of the most popular RDNA 3 chips, and AMD has confirmed that the Ryzen Z2 is on the way. The top Z2 Extreme, still based on RDNA 3, will have an 8-core, 16-thread configuration and 5 GHz. The Z2 Extreme can also do 15-35 W TDP compared to the normal Z2 at 15-30 W. The “extreme” part of the name is actually present in the number of graphics cores-16 in total. Then there’s the Z2 Go, a limited chip with four cores, eight threads, and a 4.3 GHz max boost. That last chip seems destined for the Lenovo Legion Go S portable PC.
The company dropped a few hints that Lenovo’s Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally, and even Valve’s Steam Deck could be looking to make their way to the Z2 Extreme in 2025. Steam Deck currently uses its own custom chip based on the Zen 2 architecture.
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