AMD Radeon RX 6800M Review: A worthy competitor to Nvidia s GeForce
Ryzen 9 5900HX plus Radeon RX 6800M makes for a worthy competitor. Credit: Gordon Mah Ung
If you think Nvidia’s GeForce has long had a lock on desktop GPUs, it’s nothing less than Fort Knox on gaming laptops, where it simply dominates all. That could change, however, with AMD’s new RDNA2-based Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, which promise solid competition to the high-flying GeForce chips.
To find out just how well AMD’s new GPU and CPU do, we took the new Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition around the block. If you’re looking for more CPU tests, we recommend that you read our review of Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake H, where we look at the same CPU used in the G15.
AMD announced its Radeon RX 6000M Series mobile graphics at Computex 2021.
The company also announced its AMD Advangate Design Framework for powerful gaming laptops.
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution was also unveiled at Computex 2021.
AMD unveiled its Radeon RX 6000M Series mobile graphics at Computex 2021. Despite being mobile GPUs, AMD states that they deliver desktop-class performance, including ultra-high frame rate 1440p gaming. The flagship processor of the new lineup is the Radeon RX 6800M. That processor was announced alongside the Radeon RX 6700M and the Radeon RX 6600M.
The new Radeon RX 6000M Series mobile processors combine with AMD s Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile CPUs and AMD Radeon Software to make up the newly-announced AMD Advantage Design Framework. This framework is part of a collaboration between AMD and several global partners to make gaming laptops.
The AMD Radeon RX 6800M graphics processor unit (GPU) on high-end mobile gaming laptops has been announced, but how will it fare against the Nvidia RTX 3080 GPU?