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A CES 2022, the biggest technology fair of the year, has already concluded its most recent edition, and three giants of processors and video cards made important announcements at the event. With that, that old doubt remains in the world of hardware: Which company came out on top and which one is best positioned to start 2022? AMD, NVIDIA and Intel have been “rivals” for years, and this time the competition is even fiercer. 5g1h41
Before starting our text, it is worth mentioning that I will refer to companies with synonyms, in order to make the reading more dynamic and less repetitive. Therefore, I will use a play on words that refers to the color of the logos of each brand: AMD with red, Intel with blue and NVIDIA with green. So when I refer to the “red side”, you already know what I mean.
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Starting the great duel of CES we will have a good processor clash for that year. AMD and Intel spared no effort in announcing a lineup robust, especially for mobile devices. The strategy is not surprising, given that CES is normally the stage for major revelations in this segment.
Starting from the blue side, Intel has finally revealed the processors 12th generation Alder Lake for notebooks. The kick-off was given by the H series, that is, the most powerful line in the portable segment; 8 models were announced ranging from the i5 family to the powerful i9, with 8 to 14 cores respectively.
In addition, new Us were announced for the U-series, which corresponds to low-voltage processors for ultra-thin notebooks. These models are more basic, however, they should still present a good level of performance for your proposal. On the other hand, an interesting announcement was made with the unprecedented P series, a balance between the H and U series, that is, the intermediate line for those who still want a very discreet notebook, but without sacrificing performance.
Intel's great asset is the implementation of hybrid architecture on mobile platforms. The idea is to have two types of cores working together: colors high performance mixed with colors performance to run background tasks on a single chip. This means that the Alder lake for laptops work as a SoC (System on a Chip, in literal translation).
Moving on to the red team, AMD didn't do badly and revealed the processors Ryzen 6000, also for notebooks. Unlike Intel, Lisa Su's foray brings the new Us with the It was 3+, an update of the company's famous architecture, now in 6nm lithograph. As always, the company promises big leaps in performance and more energy autonomy for notebooks.
An interesting point is that the Ryzen 6000 will feature the microarchitecture based on RDNA2 in the graphics processing part, making these chips very powerful and even suring NVIDIA's integrated cards, such as the MX line, and the recent Intel Iris Xe.
Jumping into the desktop world, AMD and Intel didn't fare badly at CES 2022. The blue side of the force announced 22 new processor versions without the "K" ending, making these pieces the most interesting for average consumers or gamers who don't want to venture into the world of overclock or complex tasks such as editing and yield. Finally, the manufacturer also announced the core i9-12900KS, which can reach frequencies of up to 5.5 Ghz in games.
AMD, on the other hand, decided to go head-to-head with KS by announcing the Ryzen 5800X3D. The new version will also have frequencies higher than 5Ghz and work through intelligent 3D V-Cache technology, which stacks save files for greater graphics performance, in addition to possibly being more powerful than the Ryzen 9 5900X.
Towards the future, the red company gave a taste of what is to come. Lisa Su announced the architecture zen 4, codenamed Raphael, for future processors Ryzen 7000. Produced in 5 nanometer lithography, the new models will arrive in late 2022 with socket AM5, for DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 memories.
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AMD and NVIDIA also had a dispute at CES 2022, but this time in the graphics card segment and… it's complicated. NVIDIA announced the RTX 3090 Ti, thicker plate than lineup RTX 30 that contains the GA102 chip at its maximum capacity, 10752 CUDA cores, 24 GB of VRAM memory operating at a rate of 21 Gbps with 384-bit interface and bandwidth at 1000 GB/s, etc. But what does it mean? To be honest, for us mere mortals: nothing.
The big problem isn't NVIDIA releasing the RTX 3090 Ti, by any means. The problem is in an unsustainable chip crisis, where not even the RTX 3090 is found in stores due to problems in the semiconductor industry, NVIDIA has the audacity to launch such an unnecessary card. Of course, we don't have the model in hand to compare the performance "jumps", but it won't be surprising when the first benchmarks come out and the performance is pifiously superior and with an even higher price. That's if we can find the GPU for purchase.
However, finally the RTX 3050 will come to the world of desktops. After being launched only for notebooks, the cheapest model of the brand will be launched on January 27 for US$ 249 (R$ 1.389 in direct conversion, without taxes). The card is developed for less demanding gamers, who intend to play lighter games in Full HD or even those AAA triple in low and/or medium quality, facing the GTX 1650, 1050 Ti e 1050.
In the specification part, the smallest sister of the family will have 9 shader-TFLOPS, tensor cores, 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM memory, and native for features like Ray Tracing and DLSS, which is perhaps the most important for cards in this category.
AMD has already announced the RX 6500 XT, which in the company's ideal world, should be the direct competitor against the RTX 3050. The problem is that this same RX 6500 XT will arrive "covered" in the market, without for codecs of rendering, with less Teraflops, smaller memory interface etc. All this for $199. Again, we emphasize that we don't have the card available for testing yet, but it's really disappointing to read specs like this in 2021.
In the notebook family, the green side of the force announced the arrival of RTX 3070 Ti e RTX 3080 Ti for notebooks, in order to equip machines to run in 1440p and 4K, respectively. AMD already made a mess with nomenclatures… In fact, there were several cards for notebooks that end up confusing because of their similarity.
For those thinner and lighter notebooks, which consume less energy and are manufactured to be easy to transport, the will be able to equip these machines with the RX6800S, RX6700S e RX 6600S. On the other hand, those beefier gaming notebooks will have the RX 6300M, RX 6500M, RX 6650M XT, RX 6650M and finally the top of the line in this category: the RX 6850M XT, revealed as the most powerful in the portable segment available on the market.
The expectation is that both lines deliver clock 7% faster, as well as the memories, which should have a gain of approximately 14% when compared to the previous generation.
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Honestly, this is a tricky answer to give. The great certainty is that NVIDIA was the most erased of all, however, it is no surprise to anyone that the series RTX 40 should be announced by the end of 2022.
The big fight, as always, is between AMD and Intel. The processor segment has become increasingly fierce, and AMD's temporary hegemony is at risk with the arrival of the new Alder Lakes with hybrid architecture. The red side, however, doesn't intend to let that go cheap and will add a lot of fuel to the fire by releasing the Ryzen 6000, while cooking up the reveal of the Ryzen 7000 for desktops in the coming months.
The mobile GPUs scenario looks interesting, but the dispute is already between AMD and NVIDIA. With the announcement of the Radeon 6000S and 6000M series, Lisa Su's company is very well positioned in the market, as is NVIDIA and its acclaimed RTX line, which remains widespread in dozens of brands.
In the opinion of this humble writer, AMD comes out as the most interesting company in this CES, featuring a robust material for graphics performance and processing. Be that as it may, even with the chip crisis and the rise in the dollar, 2022 has a long way to go, but it looks like it will positively surprise in the announcements.
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