AMD Going Into CES 2020: 2nd-gen Navi, 2020 Game Consoles, GDDR6/HBM2, Ray tracing, 4th Gen Ryzen APUs

CES has always been a computer-heavy show, and 2020 isn’t any different. We expect to see new components from some of the companies that power modern tech, such as Intel, AMD and Nvidia.

AMD is expected to unleash their second-gen Navi GPU at CES 2020 according to the latest reports. The new second-gen RDNA 2 architecture is expected to use an optimized 7nm+ process node, offer up enthusiast-grade graphics cards, hardware-level ray tracing support, both GDDR6 and HBM2 options, and even more power efficiency over the first-gen Navi products. The note about AMD using HBM2 is interesting, which could be useful for the enthusiast-grade RDNA 2 cards that would not just compete with NVIDIA’s current flagship GeForce RTX 2080 Ti but also whatever NVIDIA is cooking up for 2020 in their new Ampere-based GeForce RTX 3000 series cards that should see the RTX 3070, RTX 3080, and RTX 3080 Ti released at Computex/E3 2020.

Another jewel from Elara’s listing is that the Asus laptops are estimated to arrive on December 31, which lends certain credence to the speculation that AMD is readying a Renoir announcement for CES 2020. The latest rumor from China indicates that Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H sport up to eight cores and 16 threads, making them the first APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) to do so. After seeing hard evidence of the Ryzen 7 4700U, we believe AMD is capable of delighting us with eight-core, 16-thread APUs. The Chinese forum user claims that the source of the information is one of the world’s top laptop makers. There is no mention of clock speeds except that the Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H will give the Core i9-9880H a run for its money. It is also said that while the pair of Renoir chips consume less power, their operating temperatures aren’t lower, Tomshardware reports.

AMD CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, has confirmed that the red team’s next generation Ryzen 4000 Renoir APUs will be launching early next year. We expect that means January’s annual Vega techgasm, CES, will be featuring a whole load of AMD-based laptops to kick off the new year in style. The new Ryzen 4000 7nm mobile processors will be based on the current Zen 2 processor architecture, but it’s the choice of graphics component that we still don’t 100% know about within the new APUs.

AMD is powering both new 2020 living-room game consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, so there’s at least a chance that we’ll hear some interesting technical details about new game hardware at AMD’s annual press conference.

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