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AIB partners have shown off their Radeon 9070 series GPUs at CES 2025. RDNA 4 GPUs are targeted at the mainstream market and are expected to be released globally by the end of January 2025. At the moment, there is no pricing information available. RDNA4 brings in better ray tracing performance than RDNA3 and FSR4 for ML based Upscaler to compete against NVIDIA DLSS.

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Microsoft announced updates to DirectX 12 APIs to support neural rendering. Neural Rendering is a concept that allows for the creation of near realtime 3D graphics using Generative AI aka GenAI working alongside classic raster 3D graphics pipeline along with ray tracing.

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Nvidia has announced the Blackwell range of RTX 5000 series GPUs optimized for AI powered tech in Computer Games and Rendering at CES 2025. Blackwell architecture introduces 5th generation Tensor Cores and 4th generation RT Cores to deliver better performance in AI driven rendering including neural shaders, digital human technologies, geometry and lighting.

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Nvidia at CES 2025 announced Project DIGIT with Grace Blackwll Superchip starting at USD 3000. A miniPC with 128GB of LPDDR5X RAM and 4TB of NVMe storage that is powered by 20 Grace ARM64 CPU and Blackwell GPU that can be used for AI and HPC workloads featuring upto 1 PetaFLOPS of AI performance in FP4 mode.

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AMD is planning to launch the mid-range Navi 44 and 48 GPUs in March 2025 with initial product announcement at CES 2025 on Jan 6 by AMD CEO Lisa Su.

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Hong Kong Tech Media HKEPC reports said Nvidia plans to announce RTX 5080 Blackwell after CES on Jan 21 2025. The announcement event will be done by Jensen Huang with RTX 5080 Blackwell utilizing 10752 CUDA cores with 16GB GDDR7 30 Gbps memory maunfactured by TSMC on 4nm node.

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Solidigm, the SSD division of SK Hynix, has ceased consumer SSD operations since last year according to ITHome def2 thereby ceasing all production of P44 Pro and P41 NVMe SSDs. They have proceeded to remove all product listings from their website.

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ZLUDA fans can rejoice! ZLUDA 4.0 is now available! It now has basic support for GeekBench 5 and works on AMD and Intel GPU both integrated and discrete.

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A very happy New Year to all of you! Thanks for reading my blog. I hope you have a great 2025. I started this blog in early 2024 and it’s been a great experience. I’m looking forward to writing more in 2025.

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ThrottleStop 9.7 aka TS is now available for download to fix thermals with undervolting on supported CPUs for better performance. TS 9.7 introduces lots of requested features for the community.