From ExtremeTech: The CES trade show takes place in a few weeks, and AMD’s CEO will be delivering the opening keynote. Dr. Lisa Su will take the stage in Vegas, and is expected to deliver the company’s vision for the future. That should include the highly-anticipated Zen 4 CPUs with 3D Cache, as well as more members of the RDNA3 GPU family. The keynote will be live-streamed on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. from the Venetian.
The most anticipated announcement is Zen 4 CPUs with V-Cache. Although people were generally impressed by Zen 4 CPU performance at launch, the existence of the previous V-Cache CPU kind of crashed the party. AMD conspicuously left that CPU out of its comparisons, seemingly because it was still so competitive against the new architecture. Intel even tried to hide the 5800X3D in its Raptor Lake comparison slides, too. V-Cache CPUs can dramatically boost performance in games, so people are giddy with anticipation about that being applied to Zen 4. The company is expected to announce three V-Cache CPUs, which is a break from tradition. It previously only announced a single X3D CPU and did so at the very end of AM4’s lifecycle. This time around, AMD is facing a serious threat from Intel’s Raptor Lake, which is just as fast and less expensive to upgrade to than AMD’s new CPUs. Therefore, it’s rumored to be moving the announcement up to blunt Intel’s advance.
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