AMD’s new RDNA 3 GPUs will compete with Nvidia for mid-range gaming laptops

Enlarge / AMD is announcing at CES several RDNA 3-based GPUs for laptops. (credit: AMD)

AMD announced at CES this week several new laptop GPU models to go along with updates to the company's desktop and laptop CPU lineups. Although not as wide-ranging as Nvidia's laptop GPU announcements earlier in the week, all of these graphics chips target low-end-to-mid-range gaming laptops and mobile workstations, which data suggests is what most people are buying when they shop for those kinds of PCs.

AMD announced seven GPUs, four of which are new RDNA 3-based models in the mid-range 7600 and 7700 series (the other three are spec tweaks for existing low-end RDNA 2 laptop GPUs). The 7600 and 7700 series support the same core features of other RDNA 3 GPUs, including improved ray-tracing performance and hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding of the AV1 video codec. All four GPUs will be available in laptops beginning in February.

The full range of new (and new-ish) GPUs. (credit: AMD)

There are two new GPUs here, available in four configurations. One GPU has 32 of AMD's compute units (CUs), 2,048 shaders, and an 18Gbps memory speed. The second GPU drops to 28 CUs, 1,792 shaders, and a 16Gbps memory speed. Both GPUs share an 8GB pool of GDDR6 memory, a 128-bit memory interface, and 32MB of AMD's Infinity Cache.

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