CES 2022: New CPU and GPU announcements

12th-gen Intel ‘Alder Lake’ laptop CPUs

Offering a hybrid architecture with up to six performance cores sitting aside another 8 efficiency cores, a combination expected to offer more than 40 percent increased performance over Intel’s already awesome 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs. 

AMD Ryzen 6000 series laptop CPUs

Ryzen 6000 Series processors offer huge generational uplift with up to 11% more single threaded performance, up to 28% more multi-threaded performance, and up to 2x more graphics performance compared to the Ryzen 5000 Series. Features of new processors will include a 6nm process, RDNA 2, Zen 3+ and more. 

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT

AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT desktop graphics cards, starting at $199 SEP USD, make incredible 1080p gaming accessible to more gamers; Forthcoming AMD Software release with new driver-based upscaling technology offers increased performance for thousands of games. 

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti will come equipped with a whopping 24GB of GDDR6X memory at a blistering 21Gbit/s data rate. Details are sparse here but the company claims GeForce RTX 3090 Ti “will crank out 40 teraflops for shaders, 78 teraflops for ray tracing and a whopping 320 teraflops of AI muscle.” 

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

AMD also announced the first AMD Ryzen processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology to power incredible gaming experiences. Powered by the “Zen 3” core architecture, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D desktop processor is the world’s fastest gaming processor. 

>>Based on PCWorld materials