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AMD CES 2022 keynote live blog

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The AMD CES 2022 keynote is the first of several exciting addresses this CES, and it isn’t wasting the opportunity. Alongside new processors, new architecture designs, and improvements in mobile graphics, there’s heaps of hype about what it may tease for later in the year. This is the first big talk we’ve hard from AMD since Intel’s stellar Alder Lake launch in late 2021, so all eyes are on AMD to see what it hits back with in 2022.

You can watch the AMD CES 2022 keynote here, but this is what we expect to see announced over the next hour:

Ryzen 6000 mobile CPUs

AMD’s major mobile push should continue in 2022 with the debut of Ryzen 6000H and 6000U laptop processors. These designs will likely feature Zen 3 cores, rather than the upcoming Zen 4 design for later in the year. They may also enjoy new RDNA 2 graphics, which represents a major leap in rendering powering over previous Vega designs. That could make mid-range AMD laptops fantastic entry-level gaming machines.

More RX 6000 graphics cards

AMD is unlikely to do a full refresh of its RX 6000 graphics cards since it has a whole new generation of RDNA 3 GPUs coming later in the year. It is likely to show off a few more modest RX 6000 cards, however, making more affordable gaming a reality again — at least until stock runs out. Like Nvidia is doing with its higher-end Ti variants, too, we may see some new top tier AMD graphics cards that use specialized binning and overclocking to push them to new heights for even-more-impressive 4K gaming performance.

3D VCache CPUs

Despite early excitement about AMD’s 3D VCache technology leading to major uplifts in gaming performance, AMD has been rather quiet about it since. It doesn’t look like we’re getting any new desktop CPU announcements at CES 2022, but we may get some hints about Ryzen 5000 refreshes with this new cache technology coming down the pipe in the next few months.

Zen 4/ Ryzen 7000

AMD isn’t expected to show off real performance numbers for its true next-generation Zen 4 CPUs at CES 2022, but the hype for Ryzen 7000 may begin as AMD looks to ramp up to its biggest CPU release in many years. With a new AM5 socket, and added support for DDR5 and PCIE 5, Zen 4 is going to be big, and any hints we get will only throw fuel on that fire.

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