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A year and a half after launching the AMD Ryzen Z1 line of processors designed specifically for handheld gaming PCs, AMD is back for round two. And this time the company is introducing three chips rather than two. As expected, the Ryzen Z2 Extreme is t…
A year and a half after launching the AMD Ryzen Z1 line of processors designed specifically for handheld gaming PCs, AMD is back for round two. And this time the company is introducing three chips rather than two. As expected, the Ryzen Z2 Extreme is the new flagship. It’s an 8-core, 16-thread processor with support for CPU speeds up […]
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Not much faster at games than 9800X3D, but with up to twice as many CPU cores.
AMD's batch of CES announcements this year includes just two new products for desktop PC users: the new Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D. Both will be available at some point in the first quarter of 2025.
Both processors include additional CPU cores compared to the 9800X3D that launched in November. The 9900X3D includes 12 Zen 5 CPU cores with a maximum clock speed of 5.5 GHz, and the 9950X3D includes 16 cores with a maximum clock speed of 5.7 GHz. Both include 64MB of extra L3 cache compared to the regular 9900X and 9950X, for a total cache of 144MB and 140MB, respectively; games in particular tend to benefit disproportionately from this extra cache memory.
But the 9950X3D and 9900X3D aren't being targeted at people who build PCs primarily to game—the company says their game performance is usually within 1 percent of the 9800X3D. These processors are for people who want peak game performance when they're playing something but also need lots of CPU cores for chewing on CPU-heavy workloads during the workday.
The HP Z2 Mini G1a is a small desktop computer with designed to offer the performance a workstation in a compact package. HP says the system is eight times smaller than desktop tower, while using around half as much power. But thanks to an AMD Strix Ha…
The HP Z2 Mini G1a is a small desktop computer with designed to offer the performance a workstation in a compact package. HP says the system is eight times smaller than desktop tower, while using around half as much power. But thanks to an AMD Strix Halo processor, it’s a graphics and AI powerhouse with an […]
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The HP ZBook line of mobile workstations are high-performance laptop computers that typically feature discrete graphics tuned for professional use. But the new HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1a features integrated graphics that HP says are powerful enough to make …
The HP ZBook line of mobile workstations are high-performance laptop computers that typically feature discrete graphics tuned for professional use. But the new HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1a features integrated graphics that HP says are powerful enough to make a discrete GPU unnecessary. That’s because AMD’s new Strix Halo processors come come with up to an AMD Radeon […]
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The AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series “Strix Point” line of processors that debuted last summer pack a lot of performance into a mobile processor by combining up to 12 CPU cores based on Zen 5 architecture with up to 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units. AM…
The AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series “Strix Point” line of processors that debuted last summer pack a lot of performance into a mobile processor by combining up to 12 CPU cores based on Zen 5 architecture with up to 16 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units. AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max 300 Series “Strix Halo” go even further. […]
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Say goodbye to Dell’s Inspiron and XPS branding for consumer laptop and desktop PCs. And say goodbye to the Dell Vostro, Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex brands of business PCs. Dell is simplifying its branding with three new names: Dell, Dell …
Say goodbye to Dell’s Inspiron and XPS branding for consumer laptop and desktop PCs. And say goodbye to the Dell Vostro, Latitude, Precision, and Optiplex brands of business PCs. Dell is simplifying its branding with three new names: Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max… although things aren’t quite as simple as that because there will be three […]
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Z2 Extreme is the only one that’s faster than what AMD was offering before.
Nearly two years ago, AMD announced its first Ryzen Z1 processors. These were essentially the same silicon that AMD was putting in high-end thin-and-light laptops but tuned specifically for handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally X. As part of its CES announcements today, AMD is refreshing that lineup with three processors, all slated for an undisclosed date in the first quarter of 2025.
Although they're all part of the "Ryzen Z2" family, each of these three chips is actually much different under the hood, and some of them are newer than others.
The Ryzen Z2 Extreme is what you'd expect from a refresh: a straightforward upgrade to both the CPU and GPU architectures of the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Based on the same "Strix Point" architecture as the Ryzen AI 300 laptop processors, the Z2 Extreme includes eight CPU cores (three high-performance Zen 5 cores, five smaller and efficiency-optimized Zen 5C cores) and an unnamed RDNA 3.5 GPU with 16 of AMD's compute units (CUs). These should both provide small bumps to CPU and GPU performance relative to the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, which used eight Zen 4 CPU cores and 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores.
Dell won’t make Precision or Inspiron PCs anymore, either.
After ditching the traditional Dell XPS laptop look in favor of the polarizing design of the XPS 13 Plus released in 2022, Dell is killing the XPS branding that has become a mainstay for people seeking a sleek, respectable, well-priced PC.
This means that there won't be any more Dell XPS clamshell ultralight laptops, 2-in-1 laptops, or desktops. Dell is also killing its Latitude, Inspiron, and Precision branding, it announced today.
Moving forward, Dell computers will have either just Dell branding, which Dell’s announcement today described as “designed for play, school, and work,” Dell Pro branding “for professional-grade productivity,” or be Dell Pro Max products, which are “designed for maximum performance." Dell will release Dell and Dell Pro-branded displays, accessories, and "services," it said. The Pro Max line will feature laptops and desktop workstations with professional-grade GPU capabilities as well as a new thermal design.
Better ray tracing and ML-backed FSR upscaling could close the gap with Nvidia.
Nvidia is widely expected to announce specs, pricing, and availability information for the first few cards in the new RTX 50 series at its CES keynote later today. AMD isn't ready to get as specific about its next-generation graphics lineup yet, but the company shared a few morsels today about its next-generation RDNA 4 graphics architecture and its 9000-series graphics cards.
AMD mentioned that RDNA 4 cards were on track to launch in early 2025 during a recent earnings call, acknowledging that shipments of current-generation RX 7000-series cards were already slowing down. CEO Lisa Su said then that the architecture would include "significantly higher ray-tracing performance" as well as "new AI capabilities."
AMD's RDNA 4 launch will begin with the 9070 XT and 9070, which are both being positioned as upper-midrange GPUs like the RTX 4070 series.
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The preview the company is providing today provides few details beyond those surface-level proclamations. The compute units will be "optimized," AI compute will be "supercharged," ray-tracing will be "improved," and media encoding quality will be "better," but AMD isn't providing hard numbers for anything at this point. The RDNA 4 launch will begin with the Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 at some point in Q1 of 2025, and AMD will provide more information "later in the quarter."
AMD’s most powerful new mobile processors are the company’s new Strix Halo chips for gaming laptops and mobile workstations and the new Z2 Extreme processor, which brings Strix Point features to handheld gaming PCs. But the company is also …
AMD’s most powerful new mobile processors are the company’s new Strix Halo chips for gaming laptops and mobile workstations and the new Z2 Extreme processor, which brings Strix Point features to handheld gaming PCs. But the company is also expanding its Ryzen AI 300 lineup with new “Kracken Point” chips for mainstream laptops and mini […]
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