AMD says customers eager for a new gaming laptop should be able to purchase their first RDNA 2 GPU notebooks sometime before July, the company revealed during its CES 2021 press conference. RDNA 2 is the new graphics chip architecture from AMD is the foundation of custom chipsets on Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series S / X, and is now coming to laptops.
The Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs was the first to introduce AMD’s new RDNA 2 architecture when it launched in October last year, but they were high-end graphics cards designed to compete with those of the Nvidia Line 3000 series.
Today at CES, AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company is “on its way to launch the first RDNA 2 notebooks in the first half of the year with our partners,” adding that “you’ll also see a new RDNA 2 graphics card for mainstream desktop designs in the first half of the year as well. ”To show the performance of its mobile GPUs, Su showed Dirt 5 running at 1440p at 60 frames per second.
That said, AMD is also suffering from the same severe supply shortages that Nvidia is now experiencing, which means it can be very difficult to get your hands on any of the new desktop designs if AMD actually meets the July deadline to deliver them. However, laptops with these new mobile GPUs may be easier to achieve if the lack of desktop GPUs persists.