6 TECH ADVISOR • APRIL 2020CES 2020
for AMD. The company says over 100 laptops will ship
with Ryzen 4000 inside, with several flagship models on
display at CES. Dell’s G15 SE will serve as a showcase
for AMD’s mobile efforts, with both Ryzen 4000 and
Radeon 5000M chips inside. The Asus ROG Zephyrus
G14, meanwhile, taps into the energy efficiency
of AMD’s new CPU and Nvidia’s Max-Q GeForce
technology to offer the world’s first 14in RTX laptop.
This thing looks badass. Acer’s Swift 3, meanwhile will
come with either Intel or AMD inside.
Are the tides finally turning for AMD’s notebook
efforts? It certainly seems like it.
At the end of our chat with Ian Cutress, he muses
about the future for AMD’s Radeon graphics cards,
because AMD revealed the Radeon RX 5600 XT during
its keynote as well. It’s basically a lower-clocked version
of the Radeon RX 5700 with 6GB of memory and a
$279 (around £210) price tag. Look for it to take on
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 series for PC gaming’sAMD announced details of its monstrous
64-core Threadripper 3990X processor