Advanced Micro Devices unveiled a new set of processors and graphics processing units (GPUs) at its CES 2025 press event. The big chip design company showed off processors for desktops, laptops and gaming handhelds as well as new graphics chips.

Jack Huynh, senior vice president of the computing and graphics group at AMD, said AMD’s tech is revolutionizing industries from fish farming to nuclear power, with AI processing massive amounts of data.

“Whether you know it or not, you probably interact with AMD technology every day,” Huynh said. “And we’re just getting started” across gaming, AI PCs and enterprise.

He said at a press event at the big tech trade show in Las Vegas that the company is launching its AMD Ryzen 9000 Series, including the “world’s best processor for gamers and creators,” the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. AMD said it “touches the lives of billions” every day thanks to its AI and gaming chips.

The chip has 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, or the fifth generation of the cores that helped AMD leapfrog Intel in x86 chip performance. It has a max boost frequency of 5.7 GHz, and 144 MB total cache with second-generation AMD V-Cache technology.

Microsoft Xbox executive Matt Booty said in a guest message at the event that AMD has been driving innovation across every level of gaming, from the latest PC hardware to Xbox game consoles.

The chip can run games 8% faster on average across 40 games tested, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Black Myth Wukong compared to the predecessor AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D.

And the company said it is 20% faster based on 40 games tested compared to the Intel Core i9 285K processor. The chip is also 13% faster on average at content creation on 20 apps test versus the AMD Ryzen 9 790X3D. And it’s 10% faster than the Intel chip.

AMD said it has two versions available, one with 16 cores and 32 threads and another with 12 cores and 24 threads. They will be available in the first quarter of 2025.

AMD mobile processor

AMD also introduced the Fire Range HX3D, which the company called the best gaming and content creation mobile processor. That chip is coming in the first half of 2025.

The HXD family ranges from 12 cores and 24 threads to 16 cores and 32 threads, with max boost frequency ranging from 5.2 GHz to 5.4 GHz. The cache memory ranges from 76MB to 144MB, and the TDP (a power measurement) is 54 watts.

AMD graphics with RDNA 4

Meanwhile, AMD also showed off its RDNA 4 architecture for graphics and AI chips. It is based on optimized compute units, supercharged AI compute, improve raytracing per CU and better media encoding quality.

AMD said the RDNA 4 architecture will b used in second generation AI accelerators and will be built with a 4nm process. It will also be used in third generation raytracing accelerators and the second generation AMD Radiance Display Engine.

AMD also said its AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 tech with ML-powered upscaling will enable high-quality 4K upscaling, high performance with FSR + FG and low latency with AMD Anti-Lag 2.

For gaming graphics, AMD is introducing the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 9070. The chips will be available in Q1 2025 from Acer, Asus, Sapphire, XFX, ASRock, Gigabyte, PowerColor and Yeston.

Gaming handheld processor

AMD also announced its AMD Ryzen Z2 Series processors targeted at handheld PC gaming devices. It will feature “console-class” gaming in a handheld and allow you to stay unplugged for hours to game wherever you roam.

These Z2 processors will be part of the Lenovo Legion Go, Asus ROG Ally and the Valve Steam Deck. The SKUs include the AMD Ryzen Z2 extreme with eight cores and 16 threads, the AMD Ryzen Z2 with eight cores and 16 threads, and the AMD Ryzen Z2 Go with four cores and eight threads. They will be available in the first quarter of 2024.

AI processors

AMD also introduced the AMD Ryzen AI Pro 300 Series processors. It has a premium series AMD Ryzen 9 processor, with other processors including the AMD Ryzen AI 7 and the AMD Ryzen AI 5.

AMD said the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 it has the fastest multitasking performance in its class ahead of the Qualcomm X Plus X1P-42-100 and the Intel Core Ultra 7 285V. It said the AMD Ryzen AI 7 has the world’s best performance in next-gen AI PCs in running Windows NPU in Procyon AI.

It also has multi-day battery life for mobile applications. The family is available in the first half of 2025.

AMD also unveiled the Halo series, with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ and the AMD Ryzen AI Max processors. These have up to 16 Zen 5 performance cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 compute units, 50 TOPs with XDNA 2 NPU, and 256GB/s bandwidth in a new memory interface.

The company said the Ryzen AI Max Series performance will be up to 402% faster than the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V. And the graphics performance will be as much as 251% better. It also said its 3D rendering performance will be better than the Apple Mac M4 Pro.

It will be the world’s first Copilot+ PC processor to run 70B LLM with 2.2 times better performance than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 24GB and 87% lower TDP. The AI Max+ and the AI Max Pro will be available in the first half. Among the machines to use it will be the HP ZBook Ultra G1a, the HP Z2 Mini G1a and the Asus ROG Flow Z13.

Su said there will be more than 150 Ryzen AI designs launched in AI PCs in 2025, including machines from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Fujitsu, Gigabyte, Mechrev, MSI, NEC and Razer.

AMD also unveiled the AMD Ryzen 200 Series for mainstream consumer and commercial options. Those chips will debut in Q2 2025.

AMD said over 100 enterprise platforms will use Ryzen Pro technology in 2025.