Ces 2026: From New Intel Chips To Far Too Much Ai, 's Everything We...

December may be a slow month as far as gaming tech is concerned, but January immediately sends us electronics nerds into a full-on digital sprint. That's because the Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) is a grouping of some of the largest companies in the world, all trying to show off what they've got in the pipeline for the next year or so.

Though AI is ever becoming the buzzword when it comes to major tech events like CES, that doesn't mean there won't also be some interesting hardware to grab your attention. After all, last year saw some excellent GPUs, need laptops, great handhelds, and even actual good uses of AI. Who knew?

We know the likes of AMD and Nvidia both have keynote speeches during the week, alongside dozens of other companies, and we'll even have a few members of the PC Gamer team there on the ground floor to get their grubby mitts (and fingerprints) all over that lovely new tech.

Before we even touch down in Las Vegas for the big event, we know quite a bit about what to expect and what technology we're expecting to see in 2026. Let's get into it then.

AMD has the opening keynote speech this year, so it will naturally be trying to wow the audience. However, it's worth noting that CES is a general consumer event, rather than a gaming-focused one, so we can't expect all of its gaming offerings for 2026 to get announced here.

With seemingly little fanfare, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D popped up (and was subsequently removed) from AMD's own driver pages earlier this month. Previous leaks put the chip at a 120 W TDP with eight cores, 16 threads, 96 MB of L3 cache, and a boost clock speed of 5.6 GHz. That's 400 MHz above the 9800X3D. Given we know all of this, and it still hasn't officially launched, it seems likely it will finally come out around CES 2026.

Though a tad less concrete than the last chip, AMD reportedly planned to put out a desktop Strix Point APU in 2025 (named Ryzen 9000G), but pushed it back, so we could see more information on that at CES.

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We've also seen leaks of the Gorgon Point-like Ryzen AI 9 465, and given the leaks are so close to CES, we could see an announcement there. Gorgon Point does seem to be mostly a rebrand of Strix Point, though, so we aren't expecting huge performance bumps.

Though we expect AI to poke its head into AMD's announcements, we hope part of that is to talk a little more about the future of FSR, post-R

Source: PC Gamer