At the CES in early January 2021 AMD will present the next generation of mobile Ryzen processors alias Cezanne and Lucienne . At the same time, many notebook manufacturers are taking the opportunity and will be announcing the corresponding notebooks. NVIDIA will also probably present the mobile Ampere variants, which also means that we will see notebooks with new processors and GPUs.

IThome already seems to have corresponding information on a variant of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G. 15. With the new CPUs and GPUs, these will of course be available in different equipment variants. The high-end model will apparently be equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX, the new top model with eight cores. This achieves a base and boost clock of 3.3 and 4.7 GHz, respectively. The CPU cores are based on the Zen 3 architecture. On the GPU side, a GeForce RTX 3080 is mentioned, which is likely to be installed in a Max-Q variant – but this has not yet been confirmed.

Equipment with up to 17 GB DDR4 memory and a 1 TB SSD is also possible. In addition to this maximum configuration, there are also model variants with a Ryzen 7 5800 H and Ryzen 5 5600 H as well as smaller GeForce RTX models.

When it comes to the display, the willing buyer has the choice between a 4K display with 60 Hz, WQHD display with 165 Hz or FHD display with 300 Hz. Depending on the display and The resolution of the screen diagonal is 15, 6 or 17 Customs.

Flood of mobile hardware and notebooks expected

The CES 2021 should have the notebook market in focus. As I said, AMD will present its Ryzen 5000 series for notebooks. NVIDIA, the mobile amp versions, and Intel is responding to the stronger competition with Comet Lake-H and Tiger Lake-H. The main focus is on the gaming hardware and so, in addition to ASUS, manufacturers such as Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, Razer and some other new notebooks will be presented.