Here's what's coming in the first and second quarters of 2025. Complete details can be found Here And Here,
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
It is AMD's fastest and most advanced CPU to date, with 16 or 12 cores and is designed for creators and (especially) gamers. AMD says the new chip will deliver an average 8 percent performance boost on gaming framerates and a 10 percent improvement on other tasks.
AMD Ryzen AI 5, AI 7, and AI Max
The Ryzen AI chip is not an NPU, but a CPU that is tuned for overall performance, including AI workloads. The first Ryzen AI CPU—the Ryzen AI 300—launches in late 2024, and a collection of much faster follow-ups are coming soon, topping out at the Ryzen AI Max (available in seven different SKUs). With support for up to 16 cores and 128GB of memory, AMD says the AI Max delivers NPU performance of 50 tops. AMD naturally says the Max is embarrassingly fast at all sorts of tasks – and boldly says it can compete with Apple M4 CPUs on some of them. Ryzen AI chips are also set to appear in mini PC designs.
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series
AMD hasn't provided many details about what the differences will be in its latest GPUs, except to say that the 9070 line is targeted at midrange users. More notable is that AMD's naming scheme is evolving to more closely align with the names of its products. The 9070 and 9070 XT are coming this quarter.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took the stage in a shiny jacket and spent nearly two hours outlining the company's upcoming plans — and as expected, it's literally all about AI. But there was little discussion of NVIDIA's bread-and-butter GPUs at the keynote, including this new stuff. Complete information can be found Here And Here,
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series
Surprising no one, NVIDIA announced a new graphics processor, the GeForce RTX 50 series. On desktop, these GPUs will launch in late January 2025. Big advances are Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) 4 and a technique called Multi Frame Generation, which uses AI techniques to generate part of the pixel stream instead of doing it yourself. Through brute force tactics, performance improved dramatically. Huang says the new graphics card has up to 4,000 TOPS of AI power. The series' top-tier card—the 5090—will run just $1,999.
The RTX 50 series is also being scaled down for laptop implementation starting in March 2025. You'll get less than half the performance from the mobile version vs. desktop, but Huang says the AI will make sure your laptop won't melt while you're using it. Prices for laptops equipped with RTX 50 will range from $2,899, which will power up to 1,850 AI TOPS.
nvidia gb10
It is the backbone for NVIDIA Project Points“A personal AI supercomputer” that will bring NVIDIA's Blackwell AI platform to the masses. Do you want to run guesses offline on your desktop? Digits and the GB10 “AI Superchip” are going to make this possible – with 1 petaflop (1,000 TOPS) performance. The system will cost a minimum of $3,000, with availability in May 2025.