At CES 2019, AMD unveils third generation Ryzen desktop processor – CNET

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AMD President and CEO Lisa Su announced the third generation Ryzen desktop processor at the company’s CES keynote presentation Wednesday. It’ll launch in mid-2019, Su said.

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AMD demoed it briefly running Microsoft’s Forza Horizon 4, on the Radeon VII 7nm GPU announced today, maintaining a consistent frame rate over 100fps at 1,080p. And on a side-by-side Cinebench multicore test versus the Intel i9-9900K, it slightly outperformed the Intel.

“This system is the most advanced PC gaming hardware in the world, together in one system — third gen Ryzen, [and] Radeon VII,” Su said.

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