Last week, at the highly anticipated International 2025 CES conference, the leading technology companies unveiled their latest and greatest innovations and advancements in digital health, AI, sustainability, gaming, vehicle tech and cybersecurity.
While much of the post-event dialogue has been dominated by the reveal of NVIDIA’s long-awaited GeForce RTX 50 Series Graphics Card, AMD’s announcements mark an exciting next step for gamers and PC enthusiasts.
In this article, we will break down the key announcements from AMD’s CES keynote.
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The Next Phase of AI CPUs
Unsurprisingly, AI dominated much of the discussion across nearly all CES keynotes. For AMD specifically, they focussed on how their new range of Ryzen AI Max Series Processors deliver powerful AI performance on the go for gamers, creators, businesses and 9-5ers:
Content Creation – Multitasking like never before – video conference, write a blog post, create art all at once with incredible speed.
Gaming – World’s most powerful built-in graphics for gaming laptops, powered by AI.
Productivity – World’s fastest performance for Copilot and PCs.
Mobility – Optimised power consumption and multi-day battery life.
With the consumer shift to thin and light devices, the new AMD processors prioritise next-generation power efficiency to extend battery-life for extended mobility.
These new AI mobile processors from AMD enhance previous AI-focused products, offering up to 16 high-performance CPU cores based on the “Zen 5” architecture and up to 40 GPU compute units. This is made possible by the AMD Radeon™ 8000S Series graphics, which feature up to 96GB of dynamic graphics memory for improved resolution and high-fidelity gameplay.
Next-Level Handheld PC Gaming
With the recent resurgence of handheld gaming consoles, AMD are striving to transform the handheld gaming experience through next-level processing power. The AMD Ryzen Z2 Series processor family delivers just that!…
“PC handhelds including these new CPUs will deliver up to 12 high-performance CPU cores, 24 threads, and with AMD Radeon™ 800M graphics based on the cutting-edge AMD RDNA™ 3.5 architecture, console-class 1080p gaming is now at gamer’s fingertips.”
Having the power of a gaming PC in the palm of your hand isn’t just a pipe dream anymore, AMD is making it a reality!
The Most Powerful Mobile Processors Ever
CES 2025 has brought some fantastic news for laptop gamers. NVIDIA announcing that their 50 series GPUs would be coming to laptops must have felt like Christmas for the laptop gaming community. But it gets even better
AMD has revealed its range of AMD Ryzen 9000 HX-Series processors – projected to be one of the fastest gaming processors a laptop has ever seen. At the top end, Ryzen™ 9955HX3D will have a 144MB Cache and feature up to 16 cores, capable of delivering 32 threads of processing performance. Beyond speed and multitasking, 9000 HX-Series processors will have more direct access to cooling, meaning gamers can benefit from high clock rates and sustained performance.
Supercharging Everyday Experiences
Finally, AMD announced its new range of AMD Ryzen 200 processors, designed to support users through work, school and home productivity. But the Ryzen 200 series range isn’t all about work, you can also game with ease and stream up to 4K HDR video – supercharging your work and play!
These new CPUs offer up to 8 cores, 16 threads, 700M graphics, and up to 16 TOPs of neural processing power to deliver trusted performance, advanced battery life and support for introductory AI experiences.
Final Thoughts
AMD’s CES keynote provided an exciting insight into how the company is driving innovations in AI functionality, mobile gaming experiences and productivity. We are excited to bring our end consumers and business customers these powerful developments.
