AMD has unveiled laptop versions of its Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, which aim to support Nvidia's RTX 30-series mobile GPUs. The lineup is led by the AMD Radeon RX 6800M, which sees AMD making a long-awaited return to high-end mobile gaming. The graphics card is based on a Navi 22 GPU with 40 CPUs, which puts it on par with the full AMD Radeon RX 6800. AMD claims that the mobile GPU, which also packs 12GB of GDDR6 memory and a 145W TGP, will average 120fps and promises further performance gains compared to a 2019 gaming laptop with a card. Nvidia RTX 2070 graphics. The Radeon RX 6800M will offer a 1.7x improvement in Resident Evil: Village, according to AMD, and a 1.4x increase in Cyberpunk 2077. More interestingly, AMD also claims that its high-end mobile GPU will outperform the Nvidia RTX 3070 and in some cases the Nvidia RTX 3080. The AMD Radeon RX 6800M averaged 141 fps in Resident Evil Village versus 132 and 137 fps, respectively. , and managed to beat Nvidia's mobile GPUs in Borderlands 3 and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. AMD claims even more impressive gains when it comes to battery usage, suggesting that the AMD Radeon 6800M will offer 1,4 times the performance of the RTX 3080 in Resident Evil: Village and Dirt 5. AMD also introduced two mobile GPUs less powerful: AMD Radeon RX 6700M and Radeon RX 6800M. The former, which packs 36CU, 10GB of GDDR6 memory and up to 135W TGP, promises up to 100fps gaming at 1440p, while the latter targets Nvidia's RTX 3060 mobile with its 26CU, 8GB of gaming memory and TGP of up to 100 W. According to AMD, the Radeon RX 6800M will offer impressive gains over the Nvidia RTX 3060 in several 1080p games, including Borderlands 3 and Dirt 5. However, according to AMD's own benchmarks, it hasn't been able to match the GPU. Ampere in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War or Cyberpunk 2077. AMD claims its new GPUs, which it touts as the fastest “AMD Radeon Laptop Graphics,” are available as of now: the Radeon RX 6800M and RX 6600M ship starting today, with the RX 6700M expected to follow soon. The first laptops featuring the new AMD graphics have also started shipping. The AMD ROG Strix G15 processor, which combines an AMD Radeon RX 6800M mobile GPU with a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, is available now.
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