AMD Drops Bombshell Announcements at CES 2020
AMD has joined forces with the following Partners and their products:
Partner Products
Microsoft Surface, Xbox One,Xbox Series X, xCloud, Azure
Sony Playstation 4, Playstation 5
Apple MacBook Pro, MacPro and iMac Pro
Stadia(Google) Custom GPUs for Google Stadia
AWS(Amazon) Amazon Web Services
Google Google Datacentres
Twitter Twitter Datacentres
Dell Dell PC’s
Lenovo Lenovo PC’s
HP HP PC’s
Acer Acer PC’s
ASUS ASUS PC’s
AMD theme for the year is Gamers and Creators.
For creators:
Laptops with the best processors for capability and productivity. Zen 2 CPUs, 7nm tech, 20% lower power SOC, 3rd gen AMD Ryzen 4000 mobile processors: 8 cores, 16 threads, 7nm for ultra thin laptops.
AMD’s focus for this year is in disruptive performance and different markets.
Ryzen specs: 59% more performance than previous gens. Creators can get more done in less time, have more battery life and power efficiency. Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 contains Ryzen which will be used in 100+ systems.
Gamers: Radeon. 500m gamers + creators use Radeon.
Display: Freesync: stutter + tear free. Freesync Premium: 120Hz, LFC. Freesync Premium Pro: 120Hz, LFC, HDR support.
Software: Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition
Hardware: Radeon RX 5000 series: Radeon Media Engine: RDNA Architecture, enhanced efficiency, GDDR6 memory. Radeon Display Engine: PCIe 4.0 support.
New member Radeon RX 5600 XT: ultimate 1080P gaming card: RDNA architecture, 36 compute units, 1375MHz game clock, 1560MHz boost clock, 6GB GDDR6.
Radeon 5700: 1440P gaming.
Also Radeon 5600M and 5700M.
Ryzen 7 4800H: desktop caliber performance: 8 cores, 16 threads, up to 4,2GHz boost, 2,9Hz base, 45w TDP
Smartshift: shifting from CPU to GPU and vice versa
And the biggest announcement of them all!!! Desktop: Threadripper 3990: 64 cores!!!