When Computex kicks off this month, it’s possibly the position where we’ll notice all the main points of the next generation of gaming hardware. These new portions of silicon nirvana promise to deliver frame rates beyond our wildest dreams. Or, alternatively, it may also simply be a massive anticlimax in which AMD and Nvidia make a nod to their new technologies without giving us anything more tangible than some chips presented on stage or an unnamed reference.
As is already classic at the Taiwan Tech Show, AMD superstar, Dr. Lisa Su, presents one of the 3 main speeches of the CEO, and Nvidia announced that it will also hold a keynote speech the next day (opens in a new tab).
But without a bachelorette leather jacket in sight, as Jen-Hsun is nowhere on nvidia’s program’s list of speakers. Jeff Fisher is, though, so there’s a chance there’s something for GeForce players, even if it’s just a quick one”and finally. . . where it presents a trailer of its RTX 4000 series (opens in a new tab) scheduled for around August or September.
Or he scoffs at a new naming scheme instead.
AMD’s keynote is titled “AMD Advances the High-Performance Computing Experience” (opens in a new window) and promises that in his keynote, he and his ecosystem partners will “showcase innovative features and leadership reports for gamers. “, enthusiasts and creators. “
We know there are new Zen 4 processors (opens in a new tab) and RDNA 3 GPU (opens in a new tab) on the way later this year, probably between September and October, and there’s a chance Dr. Su will provide anything. the unit lines. Maybe those partners will take the level to display computer designs or Zen PC four.
If I had to guess, I’d say that your or Mark Papermaster will shake a Zen processor four with its new heat sink, there will be few mentions of graphics cards.
On Nvidia’s side, there have been reports that its Computex keynote will showcase the newest gaming products. But this is in a direct line in the wording of Nvidia’s own site, which can be interpreted in other ways. The full line is:
“NVIDIA will show how AI drives knowledge and the newest products and technologies for gamers and creators. “
This can be read as “NVIDIA will introduce. . . the newest and technologies for gamers and creators”, or like “NVIDIA will show how AI powers. . . the newest and technologies for players and creators”, which is much less attractive. .
But, as I say, Jeff Fisher is here, the senior vice president of GeForce, and at least he’ll have something to say on the gaming front. Although, hopefully, it may not be as disposable as its brief mention of the RTX. 3090 Ti later delayed at CES 2022 (opens in a new tab).
And where will Intel be? I guess it will try to rank through its drivers, hoping that, despite everything, it can release a low-performance discrete GPU before the end of the year. I heard that Intel would have made some major announcements at Computex if things had gone according to plan.
But that’s not the case (it opens in a new tab).
Overall, though, I expect a little more than teasers than full details. Few corporations are willing to make their biggest releases of the year coincide with fast-paced shows, which would rather have their own events they can dominate at than fight the festival for web airtime.
Still, once Computex passes, the advertising device will shift at top speed as we head towards a new generation of gaming gadgets by the end of the year.
Dave has been betting since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on Colecovision, and code books for Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the age of 16, and despite everything, he finished solving the bugs of the Cyrix-based formula about a year later. When he threw it out the window. He started writing for the official PlayStation and Xbox World magazine decades ago, then moved to the FULL-time PC format, then to PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3, among others. Now he’s back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than senses, hotter-than-sun gaming laptops, and SSDs larger than a Cybertruck.
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