Fun and graphics card games at CES 2025

WE ALL KNEW what was coming at CES: a bunch of graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia. They were pretty much exactly as predicted, albeit with some surprises. AMD managed to botch the launch of its RDNA 4 cards, while Nvidia played 3D chess with the pricing of its new RTX 50 cards.

- Jeremy Laird

As the old saying goes, AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. So it was at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. We were all expecting AMD to go big with the new RDNA 4 GPUs during its CES keynote. In the end, RDNA 4 was barely mentioned.

There were more details on RDNA 4 in the pre-release materials handed to journalists prior to the keynote than in the actual keynote. AMD reps claimed the sparsity of info was due to time constraints. The organizers of CES, we were told, only allow for 45 minutes for such talks. AMD had a lot to announce, and RDNA 4 needed more than five minutes shoehorned into a broader presentation.