Radeon RX 6700/RX 6500 and mobile RDNA2 coming in H1 2021

During its CES 2021 keynote, AMD has teased a rather neat slide that shows upcoming mobile and desktop GPUs that will arrive in H1 2021.

Zen 3 CPU and Vega GPU architectures for thin and light and high-performance gaming

AMD has kicked off its CES 2021 keynote with CEO and President, Dr. Lisa Su, taking the stage and talking about what AMD has done during the last year. More importantly, AMD has teased some of its upcoming launches, as well as officially launched the new Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors, based on Zen 3 CPU architecture but still retaining Vega-based GPU CUs, just like the Ryzen 4000 series mobile CPUs.

Core i9-11900K will beat Ryzen 9 5900X when it launches later in Q1 2021

During its CES 2021 news conference, all about Intel's new 11th gen Core H-series processors, also gave a preview of the upcoming next-generation Alder Lake, and most importantly, its 11th gen Core S-series desktop CPUs, codename Rocket Lake-S, which, according to Intel, will bring significant UPC improvement, as well as reclaim the gaming performance crown.

Can't get the wood these days

Shortages in packaging material at TSMC could lead to a shortage of Zen 3 notebook chips this year.

Based on Navi 22 GPU

According to a fresh report, AMD could launch its Radeon RX 6700 series in March, rather than earlier in the year. Based on Navi 22 GPU, the rumored RX 6700 series specifications suggest we could have great mid-range cards on the market.

 
We need more Xboxes

Two months after the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S released, Microsoft is scrambling to meet demand and has asked chipmaker AMD to fast-track production.

Chiplet latency

A new AMD patent has hinted why the outfit has taken so long to extend its CPU strategy to GPUs.

Cezanne is much faster than Renoir

As AMD is scheduled to launch its next-generation mobile processors at CES 2021, it does not come as a surprise that Cezanne, based on Zen 3 core, has appeared online and benchmarked in Geekbench 5, showing significant performance improvement over Zen 2-based Renoir.

Coming with 20GB of GDDR6X memory

According to the latest report, it appears Nvidia's upcoming RTX 3080 Ti has been pushed back to February next year.

Ready in Q3 2021 for Intel and AMD

It was rumored for a while that the Alder Lake platform expected in the latter part of 2021 has support for DDR5. Team Group is now reporting that they have successfully developed consumer-grade DDR5 memory validation. The company announced the beginning of validation.