CES 2022 is happening right now, January 5-7. However, as any excitable festival-goer knows, what happens with these is that you try your best. in the first night and the rest is wiped out. In this case, that means all of the biggest gaming announcements from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and the usual peripheral and component makers have happened.
After these announcements, we have a pretty good idea of what the next half year will look like for major PC hardware releases. That doesn’t mean everything will go to plan, but we do have all the information we need about the next generation of gaming laptops, pre-built PCs, and do-it-yourself components.
CES 2022 is also a really good performer for graphics card announcements. You wouldn’t think it’s after months and months of low availability and disappointment, but Nvidia announced its highest-end GeForce card, the RTX 3090 Ti, and both Nvidia and AMD announced graphics cards. new to the popular market.
So, if you need an update on your PC hardware or just want to start the year off at our location, you’ll find all the information from the program that’s important to PC gaming below.
Highlights of CES 2022
CES 2022 Product Announcement
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AMD’s CES 2022 announcement
This is AMD’s CES to conquer, and it completely broke it. The red team came up with tons of new tech to showcase, and topped it off was the pièce de résistance, a glimpse of their upcoming Zen 4 chip.
The main event is AMD’s Ryzen 6000 mobile processors, which are intended to power a number of flagship gaming laptops by 2022. The key to their PC gaming appeal lies in RDNA 2 graphics silicon is stuffed inside, which AMD says is 2x faster than the previous Ryzen 5000 mobile chip. There’s a lot going on for these chips, but what’s important is that they look great for mobile gaming and productivity, thanks to the improved Zen 3+ architecture. Until February.
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First introduced in 2021, AMD has now announced that its first gaming chip with 3D V-cache is on the way: the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D. This chip features stacked memory technology, which dramatically increases the memory available in the CPU package — from 32MB of L3 cache on the Ryzen 7 5800X to 96MB on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Doing this requires cutting-edge processing technologies, but AMD and TSMC nailed it to deliver a chip capable of competing with Intel’s Core i9 12900K. By the spring of 2022.
Cheap graphics cards? Never heard of them. AMD and Nvidia both released graphics cards that you can consider at a budget-friendly price point of the lineup at CES 2022. AMD’s option is the RX 6500 XT, which will start at $199. . How long it will stay at $199 is another thing entirely, but here’s hoping it can be shortly after launch. Until January 19.
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Then on to Radeon Super Resolution (RSR), which is AMD’s answer to Nvidia Image Scaling in that it works without requiring game support and is enabled in the Radeon drivers. It looks like a neat option when you’re in the mood for picky eaters, though we’ll have to test it out for ourselves to find out how it’s priced. FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) may still be your best bet if possible. Adrenalin driver pack coming soon.
AMD also announced some new laptop GPUs at CES 2022, as CES is nothing without laptop technology. The new RX 6000S chips are designed to eliminate thickness and power, in the hope of creating sleeker machines. Meanwhile, the RX 6000M chip is built to run faster than ever and hopefully delivers the mobile performance we all crave in a gaming laptop. By the first quarter of 2022.
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Nvidia’s CES 2022 announcement
Nvidia up to CES 2022 with three big announcements for gamers, though I have to say I’m pretty impressed with Nvidia’s GauGAN2 Art Engine as well (opens in a new tab).
The most prominent news is the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. This graphics card is a certified monster, Jeff Fisher said during Nvidia’s presentation, and I’m inclined to believe him after one look at its awesome cooler. Of course, it will certainly also come with a hefty price tag, though Nvidia has yet to confirm that crucial detail. More details will come later this month.
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It’s the GeForce RTX 3050 that I’m most excited about in terms of discrete graphics from the green camp. I hope it has enough power to make the Ampere worthwhile for budget gamers, and it starts at $249. Those are some big demands in 2022, but it’s January and I’m trying to be more active. Until January 27.
The RTX 3090 Ti may be the highlight of the show, but the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti gaming laptops are my stars. Especially the latter, which promises extreme 1440p performance from $1,499. At that price, we’ll see RTX 3070 Ti level performance at a price that even the RTX 3070 can’t match on Black Friday, but I doubt we’ll see it packed inside. More expensive models. Until February 1st.
Nvidia also announced that it is integrating GeForce Now game streaming into its upcoming Samsung TVs, in a move similar to one LG made recently. (opens in a new tab).
Intel CES 2022 news event
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Intel’s CES 2022 announcement
Intel’s CES 2022 show is dominated by one thing: Alder Lake. This architecture is the first to span the entire company’s desktop and mobile processors for quite some time, and that means we’ve heard about products that saturate both PC builders and mobile gamers.
Alder Lake has now made it portable and you will be surprised to know that the Performance cores and Efficiency cores of desktop chips have been used to boost performance in these mobile chips, not performance. energy. Apparently it worked for the company, as Intel has once again claimed the title of “the world’s best mobile gaming platform”. It also means we’ll see a lot of great gaming laptops with these chips on board in 2022. By early 2022.
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One thing that is still pending as the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 2021 is the non-K series Gen 12 processors. Thankfully, we didn’t have to wait long to get them in 2022. Intel has announced the full line of Alder Lake processors, such as the promising Core i5 12400, and these chips are already available at select retailers.
To use the cheaper Gen 12 chip, you’ll want a cheaper motherboard than your high-end Z690. It’s not that they don’t go well together, but it’s okay to use in a chip under $200 just to pay $300 or more for a motherboard. That’s where the H670, B660 and H610 chipsets come into play. These offer a more limited feature set, but should work well for many gaming PC builds. The B660 in particular is a remarkable device. Going to happen.
Intel also revealed the Core i9 12900KS. This is the same basic processor as the high-end Core i9 12900K (opens in a new tab), although it is binned for faster speeds. It is claimed to be capable of pushing a single core to 5.5GHz, which is no wonder for today’s silicon processors. That should make a difference in gaming performance, but I can’t imagine it being a huge improvement. Still, it’s something to brag about. Ship to OEM in coming months.
