AMD 2025 International CES Keynote Address Liveblog

[btarunr]

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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[oxrufiioxo]

Fsr 4 exclusive to 9000 series 3...2...1...

 

[Legacy-ZA]

Fsr 4 exclusive to 9000 series 3...2...1...

Could have told you that before the announcement, it's been known for a while that their upcoming GPUs will have dedicated hardware for an improved FSR.

 

[JustBenching]

Fsr 4 exclusive to 9000 series 3...2...1...

Naah, don't think that's gonna happen. It's going to run on 2xxx nvidia cards and not on a 7900xtx?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Naah, don't think that's gonna happen. It's going to run on 2xxx nvidia cards and not on a 7900xtx?

I think they've finally grown a pair and developed somthing specifically for RDNA4

 

[Tomorrow]

Naah, don't think that's gonna happen. It's going to run on 2xxx nvidia cards and not on a 7900xtx?

What makes you say 20 series?
Nothing hints at that.

 

[JustBenching]

What makes you say 20 series?
Nothing hints at that.

Cause it needs ai acceleration (tensor cores on nvidia).

 

[Frick]

No 9600x3d.

 

[phubar]

Its been rumored for a while now FSR4 is going to be a RDNA4 exclusive. Unfortunately it'd make some sense that it was if it required some sort've new hardware feature support to run adequately which is entirely possible.

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.

 

[CyberPomPom]

RDNA4 later this quarter??

 

[wNotyarD]

AMD might continue to iterate on FSR3 and keep that open though.

They probably will, or take a XeSS-like approach: Accelerated FSR4 using specialized hardware on RDNA4, lesser FSR4 for anything else.

 

[Holgmann]

Did he say "More on RDNA 4... later this quarter!"???

 

[BlaezaLite]

BLAH BLAH BLAH Where's my GPU's?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Could have told you that before the announcement, it's been known for a while that their upcoming GPUs will have dedicated hardware for an improved FSR.

Yeah, I've been saying they need to make something specifically for their hardware for since fsr1 launched and was trash they need to make something awesome for their own customers even if it's locked to their hardware.

The Copium from their fanboys about open sources will still be entertaining I got my popcorn ready.

 

[airguillaume]

So, same v-cache as 7950x3d hoped the rumour was true T_T

 

[rv8000]

I think they've finally grown a pair and developed somthing specifically for RDNA4

Since when did artificial segmentation and proprietary software equate to growing a pair?

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Since when did artificial segmentation and proprietary software equate to growing a pair?

Making stuff that isn't worse than the competition and investing in your own customer base even if that requires new hardware and not just copy Nvidia but worse.... Although this is also copying Nvidia I guess but lets hope it isn't trash....

 

[Math75]

RDNA4 later this quarter??

I heard that too, hope I misheard

 

[AusWolf]

Nearly half an hour in, and no RDNA 4 announcement? This doesn't bode well.

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".

 

[CyberPomPom]

Nearly half an hour in, and no RDNA 4 announcement? This doesn't bode well.

He literally said more on that later this quarter. That's bad...

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Nearly half an hour in, and no RDNA 4 announcement? This doesn't bode well.

Probably towards the end is my guess..... It's coming bruh and I'm hoping it's fantastic.

They just got to get the higher margin stuff out of the way first lol

 

[phubar]

RDNA4 later this quarter??

They better launch for a good price if they're going to launch late then!

 

[rv8000]

Making stuff that isn't worse than the competition and investing in your own customer base even if that requires new hardware and not just copy Nvidia but worse.... Although this is also copying Nvidia I guess but lets hope it isn't trash....

Being better or worse is not mutually exclusive with being proprietary.

Always a pleasure to have your green tinted bias in AMD threads though

 

[Bomby569]

AMD: we'll wait for Nvidia to release their pricing so we can take a couple of dollars and release ours, so predictable

and people still believe in AMD

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Always a pleasure to have your green tinted bias in AMD threads though

AMD just has to make something half decent for me to bite I do own mainly AMD hardware and even own some of their RDNA2 cards Afterall in fact I probably own more AMD hardware than most AMD fanboys..... But sure.