For AMD fans awaiting the hot new hardware from the red team, Computex will be the most exciting event in quite so time. Set to take place at the end of May, it will see AMD CEO Lisa Su take centerstage and deliver the opening keynote address where she will talk about the exciting developments AMD has been making in die-shrinking their mainstream technologies. That means AMD Ryzen 3000 desktop processors. That means RX Navi.
AMD has released a few intriguing technologies in the past few years. Ryzen CPUs have been a major part of that, helping it claw back market share against Intel, but most crucially mindshare, finally getting people to imagine it as a worthy contender for Intel hardware on their next upgrade. Graphics cards haven't been quite as successful, with Vega and RX 500 GPUs only maintaining AMD's 15-percent-ish marketshare against Nvidia, but they had their place.
The next-generation of each though, is extra exciting. Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs are expected to be the most powerful CPUs ever released, with clock speeds and IPC ratings that match or exceed Intel's best chips for the first time in a decade. With more cores and threads too, they should be fantastic at productivity tasks and excellent gaming chips too.
Navi RX is a little more nebulous, but many expect it to offer a solid replacement for RX 500 GPUs, perhaps providing Vega-like performance for just a couple of hundred dollars. If that turns out to be true, AMD could be on to a mid-range winner against the still quite barebones Nvidia mid-range. The GTX 16-series just aren't great buys compared to the RX 2060.
And all of this is coming at Computex. Color us excited.