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AMD's announcement today is flipping incredible the ryzen 9 950x 3D looks

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like the fastest consumer CPU on the planet Bar None they teased their new

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rdna 4 desktop gpus and their mobile

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lineup looks poised to absolutely dominate with chips boasting 24 hours of

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battery life all the way up to this monster that sucks back up to a whopping

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120 watts to power its desktop class

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onboard Graphics all of which sounds

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great so why am I so confused and pissed

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off right now because as good as the technology is it really does look good

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AMD's attempt at streamlining their product naming and branding is an

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absolute dogs breakfast here's a little chart that we made with the speeds and

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feeds that they shared for all the new Chips completely lost yeah that's what I

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thought but hey maybe I should be thanking AMD for all the free views that

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I'm going to get from all the confused people who just want to know what the heck they're actually

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today starting with the new desktop CPUs we've got the ryzen 99900 x3d and 9950

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x3d like last generation they've got 12 and 16 cores but unlike last

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generation's x3d chips they are not downclocked and they boast maximum boost

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speeds of up to 5.5 and 5.7 GHz respectively on paper this should

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resulting anywhere from the same performance to a nice little boost for

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productivity and as for gaming well there the uplift is going to be anywhere

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from the same performance to a nice OMG WTF Source depending on what you're

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playing I mean check out that alleged CS two performance uplift like I'm getting

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hot here boys these are all launching soon TM and while we don't have pricing

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you can expect them to be very expensive right alongside those we're

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expecting new gpus finally we're going to complain about the naming later

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though because hey as long as the price is right it's not going to matter and

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while details about their upcoming rdna 4 architecture were sparse in our

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briefing what we do know is that it's manufactured on a 4 nanm process with

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second generation AI acceleration and third generation Ray tracing

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accelerators now AMD also claims that rdna 4 will have better media encoding

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quality with their second gen AMD Radiance display engine but how much

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better it is I don't know I'm hoping for not fundamentally broken but that

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remains to be seen what doesn't remain to be seen is the naming scheme which

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appears to be a straight ripoff of NVIDIA's sorry which explicitly is a

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straight ripoff of NVIDIA I don't like it but I mean hey if your classmate is

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worth 3.5 trillion I don't really blame

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you for copying their homework and at least it gives us a rough idea of what

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to expect for performance from the RX 970 and 970 XT probably close to the

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upcoming RTX 5070 now it's time to talk

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about some of the most monstrous mobile CPUs that we've ever seen the ryzen 9

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9950 HX line and the ryzen AI Max 300

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line all of them use AMD's latest Zen 5

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architecture but they're targeting two distinct classes of notebook the former

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seems to be basically desktop chips that are repackaged for mobile workstations

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and gaming battle stations I'm talking up to 16 cores clock speeds up to 5.4

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GHz massive 54 Watt tdps and on the top

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end a whopping 144 megab of 3D vcash now

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they're onboard Graphics that's trashed tier basically it's just to save power

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when 3D acceleration isn't needed but on a chip like this I don't really think

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that matters because when you're spending this kind of money you're going to have a top speec GPU in your system

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anyway to be clear AMD didn't provide pricing but I stand by what I just said

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moving on to ryzen AI Max 300 it seems like here AMD doesn't just want to

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compete with Intel they want to dominate them again we're looking at Cutting Edge

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Zen 5 CPU cores top to bottom in this lineup and power envelopes that range

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from reasonable in a performance laptop to obscene 120

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Watts I mean we got to imagine that won't really happen in you know mobile

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battery powered devices that much but hey at least it gives AMD's Partners a

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ton of flexibility in both performance laptops and even in small form factor

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desktops the only question is if the cut down desktop chips are 55 Watts where is

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120 watts going ah I'm glad you asked it

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looks like a big part of it is going to the massive number of rdna 3.5 GPU cores

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see AMD's last gen tops out at 16 cus or

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GPU cores the new Max chips they start

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at 16 and go all the way up to 40

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they've also got a new memory interface with up to 256 GB per second of

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bandwidth and if AMD slides are to be believed even Apple's M4 Max chip one

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that basically everyone has been super impressed with is going to get a run for

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its money here now curiously ryzen 3

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ryzen 5 ryzen 7 and ryzen 9 designations are all absent from this line they're

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all just Max or Max Plus or Max Plus Pro

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so figuring out what you're buying here it's going to be a nightmare wait oh

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sorry no bad Lin we'll talk about the branding mess later for now while it's

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still hard to say how much Ai and npus are going to actually improve your

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day-to-day life the entire MAX Line can do 50 tops or trillions of operations

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per second and for comparison Intel's 285k launched late last year maxes out

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at 36 so maybe Intel can out aai the

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non-max ryzen AI 300s not likely on top of having the

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same 50 top npu these non Max chips are

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all using Zen 5 cores and rdna 3.5

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Graphics just with lower core counts cash and power consumption okay it's not

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actually quite that simple some of the cores in the non-max chips are actually

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Zen 5C which is short for compact which

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can result in lower clock speeds but can also result in better efficiency so in

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mobile devices which are often thermally constrained anyway it might be an okay

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compromise only time will tell moving on to the product I'm most interested in

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it's time to talk about ryzen Z2 handheld gaming chips and these ones

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are well they're a little disappointing actually the Z2 extreme does get a CPU

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upgrade it's Zen 5 now and rdna 3.5

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Graphics but it only gets three fullsize cores and five compact ones

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we do get four more GPU

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cores also the regular Z2 the

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non-extreme that's still Zen 4 and rdna

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3 so it's basically just a Z1 Extreme as

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for the Z2 go I was really excited about this one when I first saw it I was

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thinking man four cores that's still plenty for older and lighter games this

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thing is going to rock for like super compact gaming handhelds then my hopes

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were dashed Zen 3 plus on the the CPU

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guys that's a chip that is already feeling a little long in the tooth and

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is not very efficient by current standards what an absolute missed

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opportunity finally last and least they

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showed off the remainder of their ryzen 200 series mobile chips wait ryzen 200 I

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thought this is ryzen 300 announcement that's right coming as early as Q2 2025

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you can buy old school Zen 4 processors two amds credit I mean I

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guess at least they f the issue they had before where the first number and the

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product number did not indicate the architecture but this is still super

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messy anyway with these 200 series chips

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we either get removed or chopped down npus in in any case they're not powerful

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enough for co-pilot plus and then we get a mix of either full sizee or compact

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Zen 4 cores with rdna 3 gpus these are

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last gen through and through so all I can really hope for is that they'll be

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affordable I mean to be clear there's nothing wrong with having a last gen

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product as long as it comes at a discount and it's clear what the

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customer is buying especially on mobile where efficiency is so important and

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where it's changed so much over the last couple of years and to AMD's credit they

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kind of accomplished this by at least calling all the Zen 4 stuff ryzen 200

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but I am still finding AMD's branding extremely messy if ryzen 9 is top of the

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line well then why does a ryzen 900

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series series exist at all and what the heck is Max speaking of which while

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we're at it what is Max Plus Max is

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short for maximum by definition you can't have maximum plus like I feel like

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I'm on the playground again well I hate you infinity plus one take a math lesson

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and I haven't even gotten to Pro yet I do understand the appeal of charging

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your business customers a bit extra for your Fleet and Remote Management and

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security features but in practice isn't

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this the kind of thing that could just be a software unlock I mean they are

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almost certainly the same physical chip do you really need to add a pro version

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of nearly every CPU in the lineup it's

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just confusing finally AMD stop changing

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your GPU names the big change going from hundreds to thousands with the 5,000

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series that was mostly okay but then recently you reintroduced XTX and then

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you added this weird GRE variant and then now you're moving the numbers

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around again it's only been three

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generations AMD I'm getting Whiplash here I mean I get it you want to

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simplify things and make it easier to compare with NVIDIA but guys we being

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honest you only want that comparison when it's convenient and as soon as you

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fall behind again you're going to want to obfuscate it again and then we're left with a whole new mess do you know

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how easy it is for NVIDIA's customers to upgrade hmm I want a new GPU I just buy

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that thing but with a higher number at the beginning there's a reason that

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Apple just calls it iPhone every year AMD you got to solve this that was a lot

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of information so much that I almost forgot to plug LTT

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store.com pick up a blank t-shirt today because that was the expression on my

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face when this announcement hit man seriously that deck anyway most of the

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products do look awesome and like I said before I'm excited to get my hands on

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them and review them but man knowing all this stuff it's like my job and even I'm

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having a hard time keeping it all straight we literally made a video just

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last year about AMD's trash naming scheme and how to decipher it and now

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it's completely out of date and we're going to have to do it again super cool super cool like this

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