For the technology market, the year always starts early. In the first days of January, CES takes place in Las Vegas – the main electronics fair in the world.
Powerful new television screens, super-fast computers, innovative automotive technologies and drooling headphones are some of the products that have always come into their own alongside trendy technologies such as NFTs, cryptocurrencies and virtual reality.
However, it is good to see these products more as trends for the future, as they take a few years to reach the market at affordable prices.
Speaking of time, it’s good to point out that the fair is coming back a little differently.
After a year of virtual event due to the Covid-19 pandemic, CES is back in a hybrid scheme, with a few virtual presentations but a physical exhibition – despite the United States beating records of contamination with the Ômicron variant.
The variant, in fact, caused the fair to be reduced by one day and, now, it starts this Wednesday (5) and ends on Saturday (8).
Despite officially opening to the public this Wednesday, several companies present at the fair have already gone ahead and announced their main news to the press. Here, we highlight what’s new in processors and graphics cards
See the top announcements made for GPUs and CPUs at the opening of CES 2022:
video cards
At a time when the world suffers from shortages of graphics cards – whether due to the crisis of lack of processors, or due to the valorization of cards for mining cryptocurrencies, graphics cards have become a competitive asset.
Aware of the moment, Nvidia and AMD presented both super powerful and entry-level cards to better move the market.
Nvidia
The highlight of Nvidia’s presentation was the RTX 390 Ti, the manufacturer’s most powerful (and expensive) future card. The company, however, only revealed some of its power numbers, but not the launch date and price – which should be presented in January, but can expect unrealistic prices as the RTX 3090 is sold at around R$ 20 thousand in Brazil.
In the real world, we have the RTX 3050, the new input board from the manufacturer. It will be the first of the 50 series to support technologies such as Ray Tracing and DLSS, widely used in current games. It will be available from January 27th for $249 ($1417 in direct conversion).
Finally, the manufacturer even announced that the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti GPUs will come to notebooks – which means that we may see more powerful gaming laptops soon.
AMD
AMD has announced the RX 6500 XT, a graphics card with 6nm lithography and FSR technology via hardware, which promises to deliver higher frame rates natively in heavy games. The board arrives from January 19th with a suggested price of US$199 (R$1,122 in direct conversion).
The manufacturer also announced a series of video cards for gaming notebooks – proving that the category remains strong in the market. They come in the entry-level Radeon 6000S and 6000M lineup and promise less energy consumption and FSR support, in addition to being thinner and enabling the manufacture of more compact laptops.
Processors
Unsurprisingly, Intel and AMD have also announced their new processors, which will also make a big difference in the world’s chip shortage scenario.
Intel
Intel showcased its new 12th generation Core i5, Core i7 and Core i9 processors for notebooks. They are divided into H, P and U series.
AH is the most powerful and fastest for portable computers; the P is from the performance-focused ultra-thin family; while the U is aimed at low power consumption and promises more autonomy.
The great gimmick of the line is the Core I9012900HK, which promises to outperform Apple’s M1 in demanding tools such as Premiere Pro and AutoCAD.
As for desktops, Intel completed its portfolio by announcing another 22 processors for the 12th generation.
AMD
On the AMD side, Ryzen 6000 line processors for notebooks were presented. In this line, which brings RDNA 2 for the first time, in addition to lower energy consumption with the Zen3+ architecture, it is possible to have computers with up to 24 hours of autonomy.
The company even talked a little about its next architecture, the Zen 4, which will feature 4nm lithography (the current one is 6nm) and promised up to 5Ghz of performance per chip core in the next generation.
Reference: CNN Brasil
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