Monday, January 6th 2025
AMD 2025 International CES Keynote Address Liveblog
AMD is at the 2025 International CES, and we join them for a brisk run of what they have in store for us through the year. We expect some important announcements, such as the next-gen Radeon RX gaming GPUs powered by RDNA 4, a new flagship desktop processor powered by 3D V-Cache technology, HX-segment Ryzen 9000 series processors for gaming notebooks and portable workstations, the fabled "Strix Halo" chip AMD plans to surprise Apple with; and a fleshing out of its mobile processor portfolio.
19:02 UTC: The show is underway.
19:02 UTC: Jack Huynh takes centerstage.
19:04 UTC: CERN uses AMD technology for data-processing.
19:04 UTC: AMD announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D high core-count "Zen 5" processors with 3D V-Cache.
19:06 UTC: 9950X3D boosts up to 5.70 GHz. 8% performance increase over 7950X3D. 20% faster than Intel 285K at gaming—in some games even 35% faster. 13% performance increase over 7950X3D in productivity apps, and 10% faster than 285K in productivity workloads.
19:09 UTC: Available in March 2025.
19:09 UTC: Zen 5 X3D comes to the mobile platform with Fire Range. Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. Available in 1H-2025.
19:10 UTC: AMD just namedropped RDNA 4 and FSR 4.
19:10 UTC: CoD Black Ops 6 to support FSR 4.
19:14 UTC: "AI is the new electricity, it's going to be everywhere."
19:14 UTC: AMD expands Ryzen AI 300 series with 7 and 5 product tiers. Over 150 design wins.
19:16 UTC: Ryzen 200 series "Kraken Point" also announced. 30% faster than Lunar Lake. Over 24h battery life.
19:18 UTC: Ryzen AI MAX "Strix Halo" announced!
19:19 UTC: 16 "Zen 5" cores, 40 CU RDNA 3.5 iGPU, 256-bit LPDDR5X memory interface, 50 TOPS NPU.
19:22 UTC: Apple M4 Pro 12-core is matched, 14-core M4 Pro almost reached in performance.
19:23 UTC: 50+ ISVs working on Ryzen AI optimized applications.
19:25 UTC: Did you think "Strix Point" would be bulky? It's designed to go against the MacBook Pro.
19:26 UTC: AMD Ryzen AI PRO series announced—processors for commercial notebooks.
19:30 UTC: Wait what? No RDNA 4 announcement? I guess that's a wrap.
19:04 UTC: CERN uses AMD technology for data-processing.
19:04 UTC: AMD announces Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D high core-count "Zen 5" processors with 3D V-Cache.
19:09 UTC: Available in March 2025.
19:09 UTC: Zen 5 X3D comes to the mobile platform with Fire Range. Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. Available in 1H-2025.
19:10 UTC: CoD Black Ops 6 to support FSR 4.
19:14 UTC: "AI is the new electricity, it's going to be everywhere."
19:14 UTC: AMD expands Ryzen AI 300 series with 7 and 5 product tiers. Over 150 design wins.
19:22 UTC: Apple M4 Pro 12-core is matched, 14-core M4 Pro almost reached in performance.
19:23 UTC: 50+ ISVs working on Ryzen AI optimized applications.
19:25 UTC: Did you think "Strix Point" would be bulky? It's designed to go against the MacBook Pro.
57 Comments on AMD 2025 International CES Keynote Address Liveblog
Nothing hints at that.
AMD might continue to iterate on FSR3 and keep that open though.
FSR3 isn't bad per se. Its the in game implementations of it that tend to be mediocre. But that is mostly a developer issue. AMD could definitely stand to do better developer support though which would help out quite a bit here from what little bit I know.
Performance and price are what I care about most of all though. If it "only" performs like a 7900XT (even MLID seems to think this is about where it'll perform) but sells for $500 it'll be a solid buy. At $400 that would be a huge sales win for AMD (doubt this would happen) and could really improve their slipping market share numbers. If they charge $600+ for that level of performance then I think it'll be a mediocre buy at best and they'll get poor sales.
The Copium from their fanboys about open sources will still be entertaining I got my popcorn ready.
I hope they won't just drop a bomb at the end saying "by the way, we've got a new GPU, it isn't very good, but please buy it, thanks, bye".
They just got to get the higher margin stuff out of the way first lol
Always a pleasure to have your green tinted bias in AMD threads though
and people still believe in AMD :D