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AMD finally brought RDNA2 technology to notebooks. At today’s Computex press conference, it announced that it would launch the Radeon RX6000M series of mobile GPUs corresponding to the RX6000 series desktop GPUs, challenging NVIDIA’s current hegemony in the gaming industry. The new series includes the RX 6800M targeting RTX3080 and focusing on 1440p and 120fps games, as well as the RX6700M at 1440p 100fps and the RX6600M at 1080p 100fps. AMD claims to be 50% faster than the previous generation of RDNA (Radeon 5000M series). It can also reduce energy consumption by 43%.
In terms of specifications, 6800M has 40 computing units and optical tracking accelerators, 12GB of GDDR6 memory and 2.3GHz frequency; 6700M is also 2.3GHz, but only has 36 computing units and 10GB of memory. In addition to only 28 arithmetic units, 6600M has only 8GB of memory and 2.177GHz clock. The memory interface ranges from 192bit at 6800M to 128bit at 6600M. For comparison, the previous generation 5000M series only has 36 arithmetic units and 8GB of memory.
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AMD claims that the RX 6800M can outperform RTX 3080 in AAA masterpieces such as “Assassin’s Creed: Hall of Valor” and “Evil Castle Village”, and the host editor has tested it on a ROG Strix G15, and it can indeed be 3DMark’s TimeSpy Extreme running score exceeds 3080, but it is still a bit worse than NVIDIA on Port Royal, which focuses on light pursuit. Anyway, this generation supports light pursuit. AMD also mentioned that the 6800M can be 40% faster than 3080 when using battery power to play “Evil Castle Village”. Naturally, using battery power to play games is a special situation, and players should generally avoid it, but if you insist on playing games on an airplane, AMD will win.
AMD also launched a certification called “AMD Advantage Framework”, which, like Intel’s Evo, conveys to players the advantages of Ryzen 5000 series processors combined with RX6000M GPUs. In addition to the latest CPUs and GPUs, systems with the AMD Advantage label will also have refresh rates above 144Hz, a screen that supports FreeSync Premium, and NVMe storage. However, modern gaming notebooks can generally expect that these are basic specifications, so the AMD Advantage sticker is more just to indicate that this is an all-AMD machine.
Models equipped with both AMD processors and GPUs will be able to enable the company’s Smartshift and Smart Access technologies. The former can intelligently balance power between the CPU and GPU, and the latter allows the CPU to directly read the memory blocks in the Radeon GPU. In addition, AMD has also released a technology called FidelityFX Super Resolution, which can speed up the speed by increasing the resolution of the material. FSR has a total of four modes, allowing you to pay attention to speed or image quality according to your needs. Not only that, FSR will also be compatible with NVIDIA’s hardware, so NVIDIA users can theoretically enjoy it.
As usual, the models equipped with RX6000M are yet to be announced by notebook vendors, and FidelityFX Super Resolution will arrive on June 22.