This year’s CES saw new CPUs from AND and Intel and new GPUs from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. Here's a summary.
Intel’s new Xe discrete graphics architecture, now branded as Intel Arc, made an appearance at the company’s keynote. Intel touted over 50 design wins in OEM PCs and notebooks, but the company was not forthcoming on performance numbers or the launch of retail graphic cards. The Arc GPU includes hardware assisted ray tracing, Xe Super Sampling image enhancements, and Intel Deep Link Technology that balances power between the GPU and select Intel Core CPUs.
AMD unveiled its new AMD Ryzen 6000 series processors and AMD’s Ryzen 6000 Series processors incorporate up to eight AMD “Zen 3+” cores, optimized for better performance-per-watt in TSMC’s 6nm process, while still offering up to 5 GHz clock speeds in a 45+W mobile processor. The on-die GPU has been upgraded to AMD’s latest RDNA 2 architecture, with graphics performance significantly faster than the last generation.
Both AMD and Intel are claiming the title of fastest desktop gaming processor with their latest announced parts, but neither has been tested against each other by a third party. But the best part of the competition between the two companies is that there’s real performance competition between the two companies.
All this should be good news for PC gamers, except for one thing – there’s a shortage in supply. This is especially true in graphics cards sought after by crypto-currency miners. Both AMD’s and Nvidia’s new low-end GPUs could help fill the gap. The AMD Radeon 6500 XT with only 4GB of memory looks especially unappealing to Crypto miners.
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