All the most important CPU and GPU news from CES 2025

Here’s what’s coming, all in the first and second quarters of 2025. Full details can be found here and here.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

This is AMD’s fastest and most advanced CPU yet, featuring 16 or 12 cores and designed specifically for creators and gamers (especially). AMD says the new chip will provide an average performance increase of up to 8 percent in gaming frame rates and a 10 percent improvement in other tasks.

AMD Ryzen AI 5, AI 7, and AI Max

The Ryzen AI chip is not an NPU but a CPU tuned for overall performance, including AI workloads. The first Ryzen AI CPU — the Ryzen AI 300 — launched in late 2024, and a host of much faster follow-ups are arriving soon, headlined by the Ryzen AI Max (available in seven different SKUs). With up to 16 cores and support for 128GB of memory, AMD says AI Max delivers up to 50 TOPS NPU performance. AMD, of course, says the Max is embarrassingly fast at all sorts of tasks, and boldly says it can compete with the Apple M4 CPU at some of them. Ryzen AI chips are also set to appear in mini PC designs.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 series

AMD did not reveal many details about what would distinguish its latest graphics processor, except that the 9070 line targets mid-range users. Most obviously, AMD’s naming system is evolving to more closely match how Nvidia names its products. The 9070 and 9070 XT are coming this quarter.

Nvidia

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage wearing a shiny jacket and spent nearly two hours outlining the company’s upcoming plans — and, as expected, it’s all about artificial intelligence. But a few keywords covered Nvidia’s core GPUs, which includes these new things. Full details can be found here here and here.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series

To no one’s surprise, Nvidia announced a new graphics processor, the GeForce RTX 50 series. On the desktop, these GPUs will launch at the end of January 2025. The big breakthrough is a technology called Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4 and Multi Frame Generation, which It uses artificial intelligence techniques to create part of the pixel stream instead of doing this. via brute force tactics, greatly improving performance. Huang says the new graphics card has up to 4,000 TOPS of AI power. The highest-tier card in the series – the 5090 – will cost just $1,999.

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The RTX 50 series is also being scaled back for mobile applications, starting in March 2025. You’ll get a little less than half the performance from the mobile version versus the desktop, but Huang says the AI ​​will ensure your laptop doesn’t melt away. While you are using it. RTX 50-equipped laptops will be priced at $2,899, offering a maximum power of 1,850 AI TOPS.

Nvidia GP10

This is the backbone of Nvidia project numbersan “AI super-PC” that will bring Nvidia’s Blackwell AI platform to the masses. Want to run inference on your desktop without connecting to the Internet? Digits and the GB10 “AI superchip” will make this possible – with 1 petaflop (1000 TOPS) performance. The system will cost at least $3,000 and will be available in May 2025.