AMD reveal Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D, 'Fire Range' HX3D for mobile, Ryzen Z2 for handheld PCs, RDNA 4 and FSR 4

AMD presented their CES 2025 Keynote today to announce multiple new processors with a few bits of exciting news there.

Starting off with announcing the new Ryzen 9950X3D and 9900X3D, for gamers who really want the best possible performance. AMD expect these to be "on-shelf" sometime in Q1 2025.

Also announced is the Ryzen 9000HX "Fire Range" series bringing 2nd generation 3D V-Cache technology to mobile notebooks:

Their next-generation RDNA 4 graphics architecture and the AI-powered FSR 4 also got a very brief mention, with a guest from Microsoft where it was announced FSR 4 would be coming to Call of Duty Black ops 6 later this year. That was basically all that was said during the keynote about both RNDA 4 and FSR 4. FSR 4 has a "machine learning-based model in its algorithm".

Also coming soon will be the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 with no specifications currently being given. It appears that FSR 4 will only be supported on RDNA 4 as AMD say it was "developed for RDNA 4". AMD are only previewing it during CES, so expect eventual proper details on RDNA 4 and FSR 4 later. AMD say RNDA 4 features "powerful AI engines and revamped 3rd generation raytracing accelerators".

After that of course it all went into AI, where AMD claimed "AI is the new electricity" (yes, that was really said) along with various other AI applications. Here they also found the time between gushing about AI AI AI to announce some more AI focused processors too. This includes the Ryzen AI Max and Ryzen AI Max PRO Series (Strix Halo), Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen AI 300 PRO Series (Strix Point) and finally the Ryzen 200 and Ryzen 200 PRO Series (Krackan Point).

Both the above and below are slated to be available starting in Q1 2025.

These below are set for Q2 2025:

Not actually mentioned at all during the Keynote, but available in their public press material, they also announced the Ryzen Z2 for gaming handhelds. Before getting too excited though, Valve already confirmed no Steam Deck 2 with the Z2 as AMD's preview press material claimed it was coming to a Steam Deck.

AMD said systems powered by Ryzen Z2 processors are expected to be available starting in Q1 2025. AMD say these are designed to "bring console-class gaming to the palm of customers’ hands" featuring up to 8 Zen 5 CPU cores and RDNA 3.5 architecture-powered graphics .

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