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hey guys this is Austin and CES this year Andy has some surprisingly cool stuff so first of all we have Radeon 7 no this is the first high end GPU from AMD in quite a while it is aiming directly at the r-tx 2080 the reason it's called Radeon 7 is it basically brings the Vega GPU architecture down to a seven nanometer process now there are a ton of technical reasons why this is cool but the main thing is is that this really gets them much more into the competitive landscape especially considering that RT X is kind of far and away the fastest graphics that you can get right now you should be able to expect about 30% more performance than Vega 64 which does put this very much in the ballpark of RT X 2080 and importantly it should be able to play games at a full 4k 60 in a lot of cases it's also backed out by a pretty impressive 16 gigabytes of HBM to memory double what you're finding on the RT x 2080 and on top of that because this is the very first graphics card that's built on seven nanometer they're really able to push the clocks it goes on sale on February 7th and I gotta say even if it's not quite as good as the Arctic's 2080 I am so excited to see AMD really playing in this space and bring some proper graphics performance even though 700 hours is still a lot what's even more exciting this year is third generation Rison now rice has been really impressive to me because they keep iterating and keep making it better it's such a quick rate and rise and third gen might just be the biggest jump yet like Radeon 7 this is the first seven nanometer AMD CPU and what's cool about it is it actually is a hybrid design so the actual CPU itself is modular kind of like how thread rippers for example so in theory even though eight cores is the limit right now we could see go even higher what's most impressive about this is that it seems to have a similar level of performance to the quarry 9 all you have to take that with a massive grain of salt but if it's able to do that in what they're showing is that a significantly lower level of power Rison 3 could be super super impressive now will not be out until the middle of this year but from what they've shown so far it is incredibly impressive if that's not enough Verizon for you there's also these second generation rise in mobile now this is a very similar level of performance than what we're seeing to the first generation it does come down to a 12 nanometers process and it is a little bit faster what's cool is is that they're now a lot more options available what we're seeing is rising coming into proper gaming laptops so there's the asou stuff FX 505 behind me which is a fully AMD 7 as a freesync display that goes up to 120 Hertz it does have the new second-generation rise in mobile and it even has a Radeon 560 X GPU okay so I'm just gonna get close to the camera because I can't step backward what's cool about rising 2nd gen on the mobile side is that you do have that 35 watt TDP option so essentially normal rising Mobile is mostly meant for ultrabooks but if you want to put it in a thicker chassis which has better cooling you can get much higher boost clocks which is especially important for gaming going way down the stack that are also now AMD powered Chromebooks with their a 6 & a 4 processors now these aren't exactly super high tech it's actually from the pre rise in actual architecture so it means it's not going to be blazing fast because something that usually Chromebooks are in the to $300 category this should give you more performance and importantly better graphics than which you will find an are more Intel but that I'm very curious to see later because a lot these Chromebooks are actually shipping very very soon look what's impressive about CES for me this year is how AMD is continuing to step it up right the stronger AMD is it means the harder Intel has to work to make better chips you know that push they're like more cores higher clock speeds just to push things and push the envelope same thing on the graphic side right nvidia obviously has had their stumbles with the art CX side of things and well yes Radeon is maybe not quite up to that same level of performance in a lot of aspects but the fact that AMD is still trying with stuff like the Radeon 7 is a really really good sign the more that there's competition the PC space the better everyone is I can't stress that enough it's so easy to think that oh cool there's this new GPU its fibrous a pastor it's a new CPU its 7% faster oh it's 200 ollars more what that's just not good right that's not good for anybody so the fact that AMD is out here and doing such a good job specifically with Rison and even with Radeon is good for absolutely everyone