All the Top CPU and GPU News From CES 2025

Here’s what’s coming in Q1 and Q2 of 2025. Full details are available here And here.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

It’s AMD’s fastest and most advanced CPU to date, featuring 16 or 12 cores and purpose-built for developers and (especially) gamers. AMD says the new chip will deliver an average 8 percent performance boost in gaming framerates 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 optimized for overall performance with AI workloads. The first Ryzen AI CPU—the Ryzen AI 300—launched in late 2024, and a collection of very fast follow-ups is coming soon, in the Ryzen AI Max (available in seven different SKUs). With support for up to 16 cores and 128 GB of memory, AMD says AI Max offers NPU performance of 50 TOPS. AMD naturally says that the Max is embarrassingly fast at all kinds of tasks—and boldly says that it can compete with the Apple M4 CPU in some of them. Ryzen AI chips are also set to feature in mini PC designs.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 series

AMD hasn’t revealed many details about what will distinguish its latest GPUs, other than that the 9070 line is aimed at midrange users. More notable is that AMD’s naming scheme is evolving to more closely align with how Nvidia names its products. The 9070 and 9070 XT are coming this quarter.

Nvidia

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage in a sparkly jacket and spent nearly two hours outlining the company’s upcoming plans—and as expected, it’s practically all about AI. But little of the keynote covered Nvidia’s bread-and-butter GPUs, which include this new thing. Full details are available 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 desktop, these GPUs will launch by the end of January 2025. The big advancements are Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4 and a technology called Multi Frame Generation, which uses AI techniques to generate parts of the pixel stream rather than brute force techniques, dramatically improving performance. Huang says the new graphics card has up to 4,000 TOPS of AI power. The top-level card in the series – the 5090 – will run just $1,999

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The RTX 50 series is also being narrowed down to laptop implementations, starting in March 2025. You’ll get less than half the performance from the mobile version versus the desktop, but Huang says the AI ​​will make sure your laptop doesn’t melt. while you are using it. RTX 50-equipped laptops will run up to $2,899, offering up to 1,850 AI TOPS of power.

Nvidia GB 10

For this is the spine nvidia project no“A personal AI supercomputer” that will bring Nvidia’s Blackwell AI platform to the masses Want to run guesswork on your desktop offline? Digits and the GB10 “AI Superchip” are going to make this possible – with 1 petaflop (1,000 TOPS) performance. The system will cost a minimum of $3,000 with availability in May 2025.