Computex 2021: AMD’s latest Radeon RX 6000M series laptop GPUs have the RDNA 2 ‘advantage’

Kicking of the proceedings are three chips.

AMD has taken the wraps off the long-awaited Radeon RX 6000M collection “cellular” GPUs. Formally introduced at CES 2021, the Radeon RX 6000M collection is AMD’s reply to Nvidia’s RTX 3000 collection GPUs. The massive new replace right here is that they convey AMD’s next-gen RDNA 2 desktop structure to laptops. Kicking of the proceedings are three chips: the RX 6800M, RX 6700M, and the RX 6600M. AMD mentioned it can additionally collaborate with its international PC companions to ship laptops “designed, optimised and purpose-built for the absolute best gaming experiences” beneath the AMD Benefit Design Framework initiative that’s making its debut alongside its Radeon RX 6000M collection laptop computer GPUs.

AMD Radeon RX 6000M collection cellular graphics

The RDNA 2-based RX 6000M collection GPUs provide as much as 1.5X sooner efficiency whereas consuming as much as 43 % much less energy over final gen (based mostly on RDNA), as per numbers shared by AMD. The highest-of-the-line RX 6800M is being billed because the “quickest AMD Radeon GPU for laptops” and is designed for 1440p/120 FPS gaming. It is going to be configurable at 145W (and above). Subsequent in line, the RX 6700M (as much as 135W), is constructed for 1440p/100FPS gaming whereas the entry-level RX 6600M (as much as 100W) will cater to light-weight laptops permitting for 1080p/100FPS gaming.

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Among the different key options that AMD is touting embrace AMD Infinity Cache and DirectX Raytracing (DXR). The Radeon RX 6000M collection cellular graphics playing cards shall be out there beginning June 1 and you’ll count on them to energy a few of the most premium gaming laptops from Asus, HP, Lenovo, MSI and different main OEMs via the 12 months.

AMD Benefit Design Framework

Underneath this initiative, AMD will associate with authentic tools producers or OEMs on gaming laptops that can seemingly be designed to benefit from its {hardware}. Assume Intel Evo, however for gaming laptops. Foundation of this partnership, we will count on laptops with particular stickers/markers and beneath the hood tuning—in fact—to let you know the way an “AMD Benefit” licensed laptop computer is completely different from others.

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AMD in fact may have a listing of to-dos for OEMs to qualify for this endorsement. For starters, will probably be out there for laptops based mostly on Radeon RX 6000M collection cellular graphics and Ryzen 5000 collection cellular processors solely. Laptops eligible for the certification should have a display with a minimum of 300 nits of brightness, 144Hz refresh charge, and help Freesync – it should additionally cowl both one hundred pc of sRGB or 72 % of NTSC and include low latency. One other metric is that the mentioned laptops should preserve temperatures of beneath 40 levels on the WASD keys. These laptops may also be required to help AMD’s Good Entry Reminiscence and Good Shift expertise and provide 10 hours of video playback.

The primary AMD Benefit laptops are anticipated to be out there from “main” OEMs ranging from this month itself.