CES 2022 started off with a bang with exciting announcements from both AMD and NVIDIA. New processors, graphics cards, notebook designs, architectures, software, and even displays were announced.
AMD Highlights
- AMD announced new Ryzen 6000 series processors for mobile devices with some reaching clock speeds of up to 5.0GHz.
- AMD announced two new graphics cards for desktop PCs: Radeon RX 6500 XT and RX 6400
- AMD announced AMD Radeon RX 6000M graphics cards and Radeon RX 6000S laptops
- AMD announced AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D with 3D V-Cache™ technology and claims it to be the world’s fastest gaming processor. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D will be based on the AM4 socket, has 8 cores / 16 threads, 100MB of cache and 105W TDP.
- AMD also showcased their soon to come AMD Ryzen 7000 processors which is based on Zen4 architecture and AM5 sockets
- AMD announced new Software: Adrenalin Edition Application. This provides a new upscaling technology which will allow you to play content built for 1080 resolution on higher resolution screens like 1440p and 4K.
NVIDIA Highlights
- NVIDIA announced new laptop GPUs for laptops: the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti
- NVIDIA announced new desktop GPUs: GeForce RTX 3050 graphics cards and the 3090 Ti
- NVIDIA announced new Esports displays (monitors) at 27” with refresh rates operating at up to 360Hz. It will be the world’s first esports monitor at 1440p powered by G-Sync, which will allow your monitor to automatically align with the FPS that is produced by the graphics card
There will be a lot to digest over the coming weeks about these new technologies and still more releases are coming in 2022.
Shipments of some of the new technologies will start as early as January and February. Other technologies are slated to be released in the second half of 2022.
Intel will have big shoes to fill as they will be presenting their announcements on Tuesday, January 5th at 11 AM PST.
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