CES 2025 is looming across the nook, and whereas the annual tech present is normally filled with high-tech goodies, this yr goes to be particularly essential for avid gamers. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is internet hosting the massive CES keynote this yr, so you possibly can count on Crew Inexperienced to be going massive. Likewise, we haven’t seen new graphics playing cards from AMD, so it’s a really robust risk that CES goes to usher in a completely new technology of graphics {hardware}.
The present formally kicks off on January 7, 2025 in Las Vegas, and we’ll be on the bottom to get palms on with the tech that we’ll be utilizing over the subsequent yr or so. Whereas we’re nonetheless a pair weeks away from the present, we will make some educated guesses about what’s going to be at CES 2025.
CES 2025: When is it Taking place?
CES 2025 formally kicks off on January 7, 2025. Nonetheless, the actual present begins a day earlier, on January 6, when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage for the CES 2025 keynote at 6:30pm PST. CES 2025 will wrap up round January 10.
We count on bulletins to occur all through the week, because the a whole bunch of tech corporations all vie for consideration. Firms like Intel, AMD, Samsung and Sony all have their very own keynotes scheduled, probably brimming with bulletins of their very own. There’s going to be lots of stuff.
What’s CES?
CES, or the Client Electronics Present, is an annual tech conference, the place tech corporations massive and small exhibit ideas and new merchandise for the brand new yr. In contrast to another commerce exhibits, an enormous a part of CES has at all times been ideas that give a glimpse into the longer term, slightly than simply the merchandise we’ll see at our native Finest Purchase later within the yr – although the latter continues to be an enormous a part of the present.
You possibly can count on every thing from gaming laptops to flying automobiles to make an look at CES, although this yr we suspect the previous goes to be the star of the present.
What to Count on From CES 2025
Whereas CES normally has all kinds of know-how on supply, and sure will this yr too, the factor we’re most all for is new GPUs. In any case, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is internet hosting the massive keynote that kicks the occasion off, and I couldn’t think about Crew Inexperienced not taking that chance to announce one thing massive.
We’re overdue for brand spanking new graphics playing cards anyway. Usually, new graphics playing cards – each from AMD and Nvidia – launch on a roughly two-year cycle. On condition that the RTX 4090 launched in October 2022 and the Radeon RX 7900 XTX launched in December of the identical yr, we’re formally overdue for a brand new technology of graphics playing cards. It doesn’t harm that Intel beat each of those corporations to the punch with its new graphics card, the Intel Arc B580, both.
With the Intel card already out within the wild, and with the corporate’s disappointing Core Extremely 200S processors already out, it’s much less clear what Intel should convey to the desk. The Lunar Lake structure behind AI PCs has been out since September, and it is unlikely that Crew Blue can have a follow-up to that structure already. Nonetheless, we’re nonetheless ready on a brand new technology of H-series processors from the corporate. H-series processors are sometimes reserved for gaming laptops, and supply considerably higher efficiency than the chips behind your skinny and light-weight gadgets.
If AMD does announce new graphics, it’s doable that we would not less than get a sneak peak on the AMD Z2 – or regardless of the follow-up to the Z1 Excessive will probably be referred to as. Handheld gaming PCs have blown up over the past yr or so, with hits just like the Asus ROG Ally X and the Lenovo Legion Go actually taking the concept popularized by the Steam Deck and working with it. MSI is heading into the present with the MSI Claw 8 AI already up for preorder, and we will’t think about it’s the one producer with a handheld to point out. In any case, we’re nonetheless ready for Alienware to make its Idea UFO from CES 2020 a actuality. On condition that it’s been 4 years, we wouldn’t be stunned to see it make an look.
Past PC gaming, although, Sony and Samsung each have main press conferences on the present. Whereas it’s thrilling to see Sony on the present, it’s probably that the corporate goes to focus totally on their non-gaming segments – assume TVs, audio, and so forth. Likewise, I don’t count on Samsung to announce new telephones on the present, although with the Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely being almost a yr outdated at this level, we might be stunned.
Like every yr, although, there’s no option to predict every thing that will probably be on the present. There are a whole bunch of corporations exhibiting off what they’ve been cooking up, and there may be at all times one thing big that takes everybody unexpectedly. Fortunately, as a result of we’ll be on the bottom, we’ll be updating this text with all of the cool stuff we see in Las Vegas in January, so be sure you hold this web page bookmarked.
Jackie Thomas is the {Hardware} and Shopping for Guides Editor at IGN and the PC elements queen. You possibly can observe her @Jackiecobra
