This year's handhelds are insanely fast but also got more expensive — thanks to AMD, who in lack of competition and growing demand priced their AI chips up to 2 times higher.

With Variable Refresh Rate screen and FSR3 Frame Generation support, it can run even the most demanding games.

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AMD confirmed its Ryzen 9000HX lineup for high-end gaming and workstation laptops. They will be available later this year and the X3D model is announced with its regular counterparts.

It's hard to say how big the difference is, since raw frequency, core counts, and cache are the same. We expect it will be fairly reasonable to buy the previous generation for the majority of customers.

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They also confirmed all rumors about the most powerful APU lineup: up to 40 units on GPU and up to 120W TDP for it. Leaked benchmarks outperform RTX 3060 desktop.

The flagship 40CU GPU is using system RAM, but can allocate up to 96GB of it. Which may help with VRAM demanding games and tasks, like AI and simulations. Usually, AMD allows you to allocate up to 50% of RAM on compatible devices.

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The new FSR 4 will be upscaled with Machine Learning and will not support older cards. The new feature is currently announced for Call of Duty Black Ops 6 only and there are no independent reviews available.

Older cards will have to enjoy the fallback to FSR 3.1. Same as NVIDIA, AMD explains it with hardware requirements — RDNA4 architecture is absolutely different and has AI acceleration modules.

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Meanwhile, several Ryzen CPUs are affected by Core Communication Latency all thanks to their BigLittle architecture with several powerful cores and several light ones. Intel faced the same with their 13/14+ generations, Qualcomm faced it like a decade ago on mobile.

Ryzen had similar issues before on their chips with two dies (CCDs). But it was less noticeable, since all cores were identical.

Why do we hit the same issues again and again? How manufacturers discover even worse versions of previous issues?

Wait, how dangerous is it? In certain games and workflows it can noticeably limit the performance or cause stutters. The issue can't be fixed completely on software level, but can be covered up partially by better drivers and microcode.

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Then he dropped the mic, put on sunglasses, and walked away 😎 (via)

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Meanwhile, a laptop 4070 in its most simple 65W TDP variant, lost to the new flagship integrated graphics from Radeon. It will appear later this year in NUC boxes and premium laptops.

This Radeon 8060 is integrated into the CPU and can utilize up to 96GB of system memory. It's like a console graphics on steroids. But still with reasonable TDP of 45-120W.

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Exactly as I warned you: Ryzen AI MAX is probably the most important thing in PC gaming this year!

A single chip mixing a huge CPU and even bigger GPU that in most cases will beat the majority of discrete graphics cards in laptops.

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It seems like AMD is fixing their initial 9070 prices: before NVIDIA announcement, they hoped to sell 9070 XT for $950, but since it's at best a 5070 Ti competitor, they are lowering it to $750. Meanwhile, the basic 9070 will cost around $650 for cheapest models.

The official announcement is expected very soon. The prices above are from Amazon.

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AMD never misses its chance to miss an opportunity!

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