AMD's RDNA 2 GPUs are finally heading to laptops this June

Nvidia's domination of laptop graphics could be about to come to an end.

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AMD's latest GPU architecture, RDNA 2, has impressed on the desktop, so it seems only logical that it's heading to laptops too. And sure enough, that's exactly what AMD has just announced. The red team has broken cover to release three new GPUs for the laptop market: the Radeon RX 6800M, RX 6700M, and RX 6600M. Could we finally see some competition in the laptop graphics space? 

Gaming laptops have seen significant growth over the last year—up 27% compared to the previous year according to AMD. That's impressive. The vast majority of those gaming laptops have used Nvidia's silicon to provide the necessary muscle to handle the latest games. This is something that AMD doesn't want to see repeated this year, and its RDNA 2 graphics architecture means it actually has a decent chance for a change.

Compared to the first generation of RDNA, this latest spin offers 1.5X the performance or uses up to 43% less power. It's also capable of performing 1.77X better when the laptop isn't plugged into the socket. That's a promising start, to be sure.

Model	Radeon RX 6800M	Radeon RX 6700M	Radeon RX 6600M
GPU Name	Navi 22	Navi 22	Navi 23
GPU Architecture	RDNA 2	RDNA 2	RDNA 2
GPU Process	7nm	7nm	7nm
Comput Units & Ray Accelerators	40	36	28
Game Clock	2300 MHz @ 145W	2300 MHz @ 135W	2177 MHz @ 100W
GDDR 6	12 GB	10 GB	8GB
Memory Interface	192-bit	160-bit	128-bit
Infinity Cache	96 MB	80 MB	32 MB

Top of the new mobile lineup is the AMD Radeon RX 6800M (Navi 22), which has 40 compute units and ray accelerators, a game clock of 2,300MHz, 12GB of GDDR6 and 96MB of Infinity Cache.