CES 2024: AMD launches world’s first desktop processor with dedicated NPU for AI

The Ryzen 8000G series comes with an integrated graphics, neural processor, and is compatible with the AM4 socket.

Ryzen 8000G is the first dekstop processor series to include a dedicated NPU (Image credit: AMD)

AMD at CES 2024 has announced several new products, including new CPUs and GPUs and has also announced new partnerships with brands like Acer for AI PCs, including the all-new AMD Ryzen 8000G processor, an eight cores and a thread CPU. AMD also announces partnerships with brands like Lenovo, Razer, Asus, and Acer for the launch of Ryzen 8040 Series mobile processors for AMD-powered AI PCs.

The new lineup of desktop APUs from AMD includes Ryzen 7 8700G with an eight-core CPU along with the integrated Radeon 780M graphics. Similarly, there is also the Ryzen 5 8600G CPU with a six-core CPU and Radeon 760M graphics. Both chips include a dedicated neural engine with support for Ryzen AI technology, which will be used to optimise workloads and offer features like AI-powered noise cancellation.

AMD also announced an updated Ryzen 5000 series of processors with 3D V-Cache technology. Built on top of Zen 3 architecture, the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D, an octa-core CPU with up to 4.1GHz clock speed is meant for gamers with 100MB of on-chip memory. Similarly, the company also announced the AMD Ryzen 7 5700, AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, and the AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT.

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Besides the new CPUs, AMD also announced new graphics cards at the CES 2024. AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is a mid-tier graphics card, meant for 1080p class gaming with 16 GB of video memory. The new graphics card also comes with new software advancements such as AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 (upscaling), AMD HYPR-RX, and AMD Fluid Motion Frames. The company also claims that the RX 7600 XT offers better ray-tracing performance than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 at 1080p resolution.

Introducing AMD Ryzen 8000G Series processors, taking high performance computing to the next level in gaming, AI PCs, and ultra-small form factors. pic.twitter.com/H5hRXl3TDk

— AMD (@AMD) January 8, 2024

The new Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card is priced at $329 (~ Rs. 27,344) and will be available via brand partners like Acer, ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX starting January 24.