AMD says customers eager for a new laptop should be able to buy the first RDNA 2 GPU-powered notebooks shortly before July, the company revealed today during its press conference CES 2021. RDNA 2 is AMD’s new graphics chip architecture and the foundation of the custom chip sets in Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series S / X, and now it’s coming to laptops.
The Radeon RX 6000 series GPUs were the first to feature AMD’s new RDNA 2 architecture when they were launched in October last year, but they were top-of-the-line desktop graphics cards designed to be head-to-head to deal with Nvidia’s. 3000 series line.
Today at CES, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company is “on track to launch the first notebooks with RDNA 2 with our partners in the first half of the year.” designs also in the first half of the year. Su showed off to show off the performance of his mobile GPUs Dirty 5 runs at 1440p at 60 frames per second.
That said, AMD is also suffering from the same severe shortage of supply that Nvidia currently has, which means it could be quite difficult to get hold of any of the new desktop designs if AMD actually meets the July deadline to deliver it. . Although, maybe it’s easier to get laptops with the new mobile GPUs if the shortage of desktop GPUs continues.