Leo Says Ep.73: AMD APUs at CES 2024

KitGuru had a stonkingly successful CES 2024, however there is one small gap in our coverage that needs to be addressed. We gave plenty of coverage to Intel's new Core Ultra range of Meteor Lake laptop processors but appeared to give AMD the cold shoulder, and it is now time to fix that apparent oversight.

AMD had a number of new products to discuss, including their Ryzen 8040 Series of laptop processors and Ryzen 8000G APUs that launch at the end of January. These APUs combine Zen 4 CPU cores with RDNA 3 Radeon 700M graphics and an XDNA AI engine. The top product in the stack is the Ryzen 7 8700G which will sell for $329 and promises to deliver Triple A gaming at 1080p without the need for a graphics card. That is a bold claim and we can hardly wait to see how well it performs.

KitGuru says: AMD also showed off their Instinct MI300 Series of AI accelerators which aim to take the fight to the mighty Nvidia. These are products that land way outside of KitGuru's beat, but even so it was fun seeing some of the most extreme silicon on the planet.

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