AMD, Nvidia, and Intel all presented lots of new products during their CES 2023 keynotes. What’s new and who’s winning?
AMD, Nvidia, and Intel are the three rivals that power up countless desktops and laptops, and the components they produce make CES exciting every year. This year, each manufacturer had some major announcements to share, including new processors and graphics cards, both for desktops and laptops.
Here’s a recap of everything AMD, Nvidia, and Intel showed off during the last few days. Fair warning: there’s a lot to sink your teeth into. Now, the question is, who did it best at this year’s CES?
AMD certainly had a lot to talk about during its CES 2023 keynote. Team Red’s main focus this year seemed to be on laptops and the different solutions it can bring to that part of the market. Desktop users also got a long-anticipated confirmation of the upcoming 3D V-Cache Ryzen 7000 CPUs.
The company is making a strong entry into the laptop market for this generation of processors and graphics cards. When it comes to CPUs, the list seems to be never-ending, and it’s not even just Zen 4 parts. AMD is also resurrecting the Zen 3+ and the Zen 3 by bringing new chips to budget and efficiency-oriented laptops.
While the Ryzen 7030 and Ryzen 7035, which are Zen 3 and Zen 3+ parts respectively, received some coverage, AMD’s main focus was on the Ryzen 7040 and Ryzen 7045. Both the lineups are based on Zen 4 architecture, with Ryzen 7040 being aimed at ultra-thin notebooks and maxing out at eight cores. It’s the Ryzen 7045 series where the exciting stuff can be found, though. With a maximum of 16 cores, these CPUs will end up in some of the best gaming laptops of the year.
It’s not just Ryzen processors that are coming to laptops, but RDNA 3 graphics cards too. AMD is readying the RX 7600M XT and non-XT, said to rival the desktop version of Nvidia’s RTX 3060, as well as the RX 7700S.
Laptop fans have plenty to be hyped for, but desktop PC gamers should be on the lookout for not just one, but three Ryzen 7000 3D V-Cache chips. Initially debuted in the last-gen Ryzen 7 5800X3D, the technology had proved to be a win for AMD, and this time around, it’s coming to three CPUs instead of just one. We’re getting the Ryzen 9 7950X3D, with 16 cores and a massive 144MB of stacked cache, as well as the Ryzen 9 7900X3D and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
Nvidia managed to surprise many during this year’s CES. While the rumor mill had been buzzing with news about the RTX 40-series graphics cards coming to laptops for quite a while, most of us didn’t expect to see the full lineup so soon, and with the flagship RTX 4090 sitting atop the mountain of mobile GPUs.
In the last generation of GPUs (Ampere), Nvidia didn’t launch everything all at once, and the RTX 3090 never made it to laptops.
