We’re simply over a month away from CES 2022 and although it has been scaled down over the past couple of years as a result of pandemic, the 2022 version is certain to incorporate many product launches. One of many launches that’s prone to happen features a new Asus ROG Zephyrus gaming laptop computer, particularly a mannequin which incorporates some thrilling unreleased {hardware}.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 GX650 reportedly features a Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU and Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti GPU. The CPU in query is probably going a Rembrandt APU, or the successor to the present Cezanne collection APUs whereas the RTX 3080 Ti is a brand new high-end GPU that’s fairly a bounce over the present RTX 3080 laptop computer flagship.
The high-end Asus Zephyrus fashions often come filled with {hardware}. Mylaptopguide (through Videocardz) speculates that the brand new mannequin will embrace a 16-inch display with a 300Hz refresh price. It additionally claims the unit will likely be accessible with choices together with an 8TB SSD and 48 GB of DDR5 reminiscence. Although we’re somewhat skeptical of these specs, huge spenders might want to spend huge if Asus does launch a Zephyrus with all of that included.
The RTX 3080 Ti is reportedly primarily based on a brand new GPU, the GA103. Its anticipated to be an enchancment over the GA104 primarily based RTX 3080 in each approach. A Geekbench listing teases some really desktop class specs with 58 SMs for as much as 7,424 CUDA cores and a clock pace of 1,395 MHz. The GPU additionally options 16 GB of GDDR6 reminiscence.
Efficiency at that degree means it’s going to suck a whole lot of energy, so that you’ll probably solely discover it in cumbersome desktop substitute machines. This GPU is prone to discover its approach into many excessive finish twelfth Gen laptops which can be additionally slated to look at CES.
The AMD Rembrandt APU is rumoured to be a 6nm refresh of the present 7nm Zen 3 Cezanne APU. DDR5 reminiscence help has been rumoured, but when so its prone to be alongside DDR4. There’s additionally welcome PCIe 4.0 help. Other than that there’s not a lot change anticipated on the CPU facet of it, with greater clocks probably due to the slight effectivity acquire from shifting to 6nm.
The GPU is one thing else fully. The venerable Vega built-in graphics unit is lastly being put out to pasture, in favor of RDNA 2 primarily based graphics, although particulars are scarce. Present Vega built-in graphics are closely bottlenecked by system RAM so we stay up for seeing how RDNA 2 performs with bandwidth limitations. In fact, in a high-end gaming laptop computer, you’ll be utilizing the far more highly effective discrete graphics for probably the most half.
CES 2022 will get underway in Las Vegas early subsequent month. We are able to anticipate a whole lot of laptop computer unveilings together with a slew of twelfth Gen fashions alongside AMD’s choices. On the desktop facet, we may see Nvidia reveal its RTX 3090 Ti, RTX 2060 refresh and RTX 3070 Ti 16GB and AMD’s V-Cache enabled CPUs. Keep tuned for our protection.
