CES has begun, and the Las Vegas consumer technology trade show starts with a bang, giving the floor to AMD and Intel for them to feature their latest in Consumer and Enterprise technologies. In its press conference, AMD announced a new set of 5600 series GPUs, mobile Ryzen 4000 series CPUs, and a new Threadripper enterprise CPU, hoping to beat Intel at all levels. And so far, with the way Intel's keypoint went, AMD has CES 2020 in the bag.
Radeon 5600 and 5600XT
The new AMD Radeon 5600 series GPUs are entry or lower-end GPUs designed for giving a decent performance at a low-price and low-power requirement. The GPUs will be built using a 7-nanometer manufacturing process, with a much lower size allowing for better performance at a lower cost. Smaller chips also allow for more yield in production, lowering the costs for the manufacturer TSMC who produces chips for AMD.
The 7nm process, meaning a gap of just 7 nano-meters between MOSFETs, allows for much lower heat produced over older, larger processes. For reference, Nvidia uses a 12nm process for their 2060 and 2080 super, while Intel CPUs have been stuck on a 10nm process for many years.
The 5600 series will consist of the 5600, the 5600XT, and the 5600M mobile GPU. The 5600 and 5600XT will be competing with Nvidia's lower-end cards. The 5600XT has 36CUs, 2,304 stream processors for a 7.19 teraflop processing power at 150w. Its performance is comparable to the 1660ti and may already outshine the upcoming Intel DG1.
The Intel DG1 will be using the same Xe Graphics Design that is used in the upcoming Tigerlake Ultrabook-class processors. The Intel CES keynote showed a glimpse of the DG1 running Destiny 2 and is apparently a mobile class processor.
AMD Ryzen 4000 series processors
AMD also announces the new 4000 series discrete processors, a set of mobile processors under the U-series, H-series, and Pro-series lines. Its laptop processor is also a winner with eight cores, 16 threads, and a 15-watt TDP. It can also boost to 45-watts for an extra burst of performance, performance which AMD's Frank Azor says can beat out Intel's desktop processors.
AMD Lisa Su also took the chance to show off a new Ryzen 4000-series Lenovo Yoga laptop, with more than 100 systems to come in 2020. While Frank Azor says, the Dell G5 SE will debut sporting the Renoir-H, or H-series CPU, as well as a Radeon RX 5600M GPU. This all-AMD laptop, with an option for up to 144Hz FreeSync compatible display for a no-comprise experience for as low as $800.
AMD 7nm Threadripper will cost $4,000
AMD also plans to compete with Intel at the enterprise level, with a brand new Threadripper. The new 64-bit Threadripper will have 64 cores and 128 threads and will also be manufactured with the 7nm for more performance at a lower heat. Priced at $4,000, the enterprise-level will be available by Feb. 7. This new Threadripper will be AMD's latest flagship as they try to break into the corporate solutions, as they offer new hardware with the latest manufacturing process, now all they need is to offer the corporate solutions.
