Monday, January 6th 2025

AMD 2025 International CES Keynote Address Liveblog

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btarunr
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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.

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57 Comments on AMD 2025 International CES Keynote Address Liveblog

#26
wNotyarD
@btarunr
19:25 UTC: Did you think "Strix Point" would be bulky? It's designed to go against the MacBook Pro.
Strix Point or Strix Halo here?
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#27
AusWolf
Bomby569AMD: we'll wait for Nvidia to release their pricing so we can take a couple of dollars and release ours, so predictable
If that's the case, it's understandable. Disappointing, but understandable.
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#28
Legacy-ZA
Nothing about RDNA4, seriously? What a let down.
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#29
oxrufiioxo
AusWolfIf that's the case, it's understandable. Disappointing, but understandable.
Well that is a bummer probably don't want to go first and look stupid I guess. I thought they would at least announce them and just not talk about pricing.
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#30
Jarmer
WOW what a letdown. No info or announcement or anything at all. That's really not good at all.
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#31
Acuity
The worst conference I've seen so far. (but awesome apu)
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#32
BlaezaLite
I'm pissed. Makes me think the worst about rdna4
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#34
oxrufiioxo
BlaezaLiteI'm pissed. Makes me think the worst about rdna4
Well it's going to have to be good based on features... Pretty open secret that it won't be faster in raster than the outgoing RDNA3 cards although if it comes close to the 7900XTX while being significantly cheaper people will be pretty happy.



Looks like 7900XT performance but that has been know for a while..... These boxes don't really say much though... I do find it interesting that they put the 4080 slightly above the 7900XTX....
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#35
AusWolf
oxrufiioxoWell it's going to have to be good based on features... Pretty open secret that it won't be faster in raster than the outgoing RDNA3 cards although if it comes close to the 7900XTX while being significantly cheaper people will be pretty happy.
That's awesome, but when? All this delay isn't building hype, it's raising concerns, imo.
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#36
Tomorrow
JustBenchingCause it needs ai acceleration (tensor cores on nvidia).
FSR4 will not use Tensor cores.
rv8000Since when did artificial segmentation and proprietary software equate to growing a pair?
As much as i dont like it i also have to concede that doing the same thing every time and expecting a different results will get them nowhere.
And as people have said - AMD needs exclusive features as a selling point.
Doing slightly worse version of Nvidia's features has not worked out for them. It's time to try something different.
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#37
wNotyarD
AusWolfThat's awesome, but when? All this delay isn't building hype, it's raising concerns, imo.
If AMD taught me something, it is that building hype only brings pain later
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#39
oxrufiioxo
AusWolfOh hey:
www.techpowerup.com/330549/amd-debuts-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-rx-9070-powered-by-rdna-4-and-fsr-4
I edited my comment and added their boxes as our only guide to performance lol....
AusWolfThat's awesome, but when? All this delay isn't building hype, it's raising concerns, imo.
It's super hard to know with AMD this is probably better than the RDNA3 presentation where they had the 7900XTX faster than the 4090 lol.... Better to just say it's good here is the price wait for reviews imho.
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#40
AusWolf
oxrufiioxoI edited my comment and added their boxes as our only guide to performance lol....



It's super hard to know with AMD this is probably better than the RDNA3 presentation where they had the 7900XTX faster than the 4090 lol.... Better to just say it's good here is the price wait for reviews imho.
Yeah. Although, they didn't say anything that we didn't already know. No date, either.
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#42
oxrufiioxo
AusWolfYeah. Although, they didn't say anything that we didn't already know. No date, either.
I think that was a miss but I'd rather have that vs pie in the sky benchmarks that aren't based on reality.... I'm sure we will get plenty of that at the Nvidia conference even though Nvidia could release a steaming pile of shite with a big N on it and people would buy it.
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#43
AusWolf
JarmerWhere did this info come from? None of that was in the conference...
Dunno, just randomly found it on the main page.
oxrufiioxoI think that was a miss but I'd rather have that vs pie in the sky benchmarks that aren't based on reality....
True, though all I wanted is a time frame, and that's exactly what I didn't get.
oxrufiioxoI'm sure we will get plenty of that at the Nvidia conference even though Nvidia could release a steaming pile of shite with a big N on it and people would buy it.
Yeah, who needs benchmarks at this point? We all know the 5090 runs every game at 6457754 FPS anyway.
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#44
oxrufiioxo
AusWolfYeah, who needs benchmarks at this point? We all know the 5090 runs every game at 6457754 FPS anyway.
That's exactly what I meant... We know it's going to be the fastest gaming gpu ever made, we know it's going to be expensive.... But I still think Nvidia will fudge the numbers with frame gen like they did comparing 3000 and 4000 saying it was like 4x faster lmao when there is no need they still are going to outsell everyone else by a massive margin even if everything was 15% faster up and down the stack.
AusWolfTrue, though all I wanted is a time frame, and that's exactly what I didn't get.
That definitely sucks even though this likely isn't going to be fast enough to even replace my 3080ti in my secondary pc I would have still loved to see some actual performance numbers and what makes FSR4 special and how the card is making it better.
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#45
rv8000
TomorrowFSR4 will not use Tensor cores.

As much as i dont like it i also have to concede that doing the same thing every time and expecting a different results will get them nowhere.
And as people have said - AMD needs exclusive features as a selling point.
Doing slightly worse version of Nvidia's features has not worked out for them. It's time to try something different.
Offering proprietary software features and or artificially segmenting software features, in a massively nvidia saturated market (both consumer and commercial) are not gonna win any market share; neither is it a guarantee that one implementation is better than the other.

The other problem is half the consumer market are full of zombies buying cards with features they’ll never use and or utilize because in large part ray tracing is still a scam that everyone and their mother uses to justify a purchase. Then they end up playing cs2, league, or apex at minimum settings to get as many FPS as possible and never touch ray tracing, dlss, fsr, frame gen unless all that garbage is enabled by default. I understand having options, but in large part the overwhelming majority of people buy something they’ll never use since all the software tomfoolery marketing came about.

AMD need to focus on one thing, undisputed price and performance value for the newer generation of cards. No one is going to swap for software nonsense.
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#46
oxrufiioxo
rv8000Offering proprietary software features and or artificially segmenting software features, in a massively nvidia saturated market (both consumer and commercial) are not gonna win any market share; neither is it a guarantee that one implementation is better than the other.

The other problem is half the consumer market are full of zombies buying cards with features they’ll never use and or utilize because in large part ray tracing is still a scam that everyone and their mother uses to justify a purchase. Then they end up playing cs2, league, or apex at minimum settings to get as many FPS as possible and never touch ray tracing, dlss, fsr, frame gen unless all that garbage is enabled by default. I understand having options, but in large part the overwhelming majority of people buy something they’ll never use since all the software tomfoolery marketing came about.

AMD need to focus on one thing, undisputed price and performance value for the newer generation of cards. No one is going to swap for software nonsense.
Seems like it will be easy to integrate into anything FSR 3.1 is already in it will just make it better... Sounds more like intels gameplan honestly.





I agree with you they need to make the value of this card so good it's the default option....
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#47
BlaezaLite
oxrufiioxoSeems like it will be easy to integrate into anything FSR 3.1 is already in it will just make it better... Sounds more like intels gameplan honestly.





I agree with you they need to make the value of this card so good it's the default option....
And they show off the latest AI frame gen with a game generated by AI lmao.
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#48
ZoneDymo
"19:14 UTC: "AI is the new electricity, it's going to be everywhere.""

Ironic statement considering how much energy it requires....and also no, just no.
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#49
remekra
I knew they won't release a flagship 9090 with 64GB of GDDR8 but I at least expected them to come out with "Hey this is RX 9070XT, here are the benchmarks, here is new FSR4, here are our improvements we made to RT and overall to the architecture. We know it won't be fastest but you know what it will be? Cheap" to really come attack at the mid or high end. This just presentation just screams "We are into CPUs and AI now, sorry". Like Radeon group just exists to provide GPUs for APU and Instinct.
Shame and also prices for RTX 5000 just got even higher.
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#50
Bomby569
remekraShame and also prices for RTX 5000 just got even higher.
that's great news for AMD because they will also have higher prices. Minus $50 of a higher number is better.
Sales will be shit but who cares at this point, just buy a console, it's better for us.
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