AMD has just announced during its CES 2022 conference a series of new gaming GPUs from the Radeon RX 6000M notebook family, including the company’s most powerful notebook graphics chip and the world’s first 6nm solutions. The giant also unveiled its first high-performance bets for ultra-thin notebooks, targeting Nvidia’s “Max-Q” models.
Radeon RX 6050M Brings New Level of Performance
The more powerful models announced come as a kind of “refresh” of the solutions launched by the company last year, thus bringing the 50M and 50M XT terminations. The news is led by Radeon RX 6850M XT, which arrives to face the RTX 3080 mobile and assume the position of the most powerful GPU ever launched by AMD in laptops.
Like the RX 6800M, the RX 6850M XT uses the Navi 22 chip manufactured in 7 nm, with 40 Computational Units (CUs) and 2,560 cores, accompanied by 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 96 MB of Infinity Cache. To boost performance, adjustments were made in consumption, clocks and memory — the launch can be configured with TGP between 130 W and 165 W, a range above the 145 W of the 6800M, and reaches a Game Clock of 2,463 MHz, slightly increased over 160 MHz.
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Even keeping the 192-bit interface, the RAM clocked at 18 Gbps instead of the standard 16 Gbps, which allowed the bandwidth to jump from 384 GB/s to 432 GB/s. In addition, the computational power goes from 11.7 TFLOPs to 12.6 TFLOPs. In practice, AMD promises gains of 7% on average compared to the RX 6800M.
Also unveiled were the new RX 6650M and RX 6650M XT, intermediate solutions that may be the most popular among users, especially in light of the global chip crisis. Following in the footsteps of the high-end model, the RX 6650M is very similar to the RX 6600M, bringing the same 28 CUs and 1,792 cores, with 8GB of GDDR6 RAM and 32MB of Infinity Cache, but employing higher clocks on the GPU and memories , in addition to higher consumption.
The RAM also goes up to 18 Gbps, thus bringing 256 GB/s of bandwidth, while consumption can be set between 80 W and 120 W, enabling the novelty to deliver a 2,222 MHz Game Clock, with 7.9 TFLOPs of power computational. More interestingly, the RX 6650M XT offers a more striking upgrade, bringing unprecedented 32 CUs and 2,048 cores configuration, with the same 8 GB RAM and 32 MB Infinity Cache as the standard variant.
The Game Clock is lower, at 2,162 MHz, but is offset by the larger chip, thus offering 8.8 TFLOPs of computational power. All will be present in some of the most powerful models of gaming notebooks from brands such as Dell, Alienware and others, which are expected to be announced during CES 2022.
Radeon RX 6500M and 6300M are first 6nm GPUs
Confirming the numerous rumors, AMD also introduced the Radeon RX 6500M and RX 6300M, two new entry-level GPUs focused on fighting Nvidia’s RTX 3050 and hindering Intel’s advances in the graphics card market. Exactly as speculated, both are based on the new Navi 24 chip, the world’s first 6nm GPU, in slightly different configurations.
More powerful, the RX 6500M brings the full GPU variant, with 16 CUs and 1,024 cores, accompanied by 4 GB of GDDR6 RAM and 16 MB of Infinity Cache in a 128-bit interface, thus having 289 GB bandwidth /s. Consumption is quite low, set at 35 W, while clocks reach 2,191 MHz in games, which results in 4.4 TFLOPs of computational power.
For even more basic machines, and specifically targeting the GTX 1650, the RX 6300M is equipped with 12 CUs and 768 cores, along with 2GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 8MB of Infinity Cache, the same 128-bit interface and bandwidth 289 GB/sec. Consumption is even more modest, set to 25 W, enabling clocks of 1512 MHz, for computing power of 2.3 TFLOPs.
Radeon RX 6000S is gamer line for ultra thin
Another target of the leaks, the new Radeon RX 6000S family was AMD’s last big announcement during the conference, and it surprises by the unexpected purpose of capturing the market for Nvidia’s low-power solutions.
The company highlights that the line was designed for ultra-thin notebooks and specifically targets GeForce RTX “Max-Q” GPUs, as the team’s green graphics chips with consumption stipulated between 60 W and 80 W were known.
Unfortunately, unlike rivals in the GeForce lineup, which only suffer from reductions in consumption, the RX 6000S GPUs feature significant reductions in configurations compared to their high-performance counterparts, which will require even more attention from consumers at the time of purchase.
The most powerful solution is the RX 6800S, which curiously brings specs very similar to the RX 6650M XT, except for the differences resulting from the lower consumption: there are 32 CUs and 2,048 cores, with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 32 MB of Infinity Cache, interface 128-bit and 256 GB/s bandwidth.
Consumption reaches 100 W, a reasonably high number considering the “Max-Q” proposal, with a 1,975 MHz Game Clock, which results in 8 TFLOPs of computational power. AMD positions it to compete with the RTX 3080 Max-Q and RTX 3070 Max-Q.
Just below is the RX 6700S, which looks similar to the RX 6600M — there are 28 CUs and 1,792 cores, with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM and 32MB of Infinity Cache, 128-bit interface and 224GB/s bandwidth. Consumption can be configured up to 80 W, delivering 1,890 MHz Game Clock, which results in up to 6.7 TFLOPs of computing power. The model is intended to compete with the RTX 3070 Max-Q and the RTX 3060 Max-Q.
Finally, the RX 6600S is quite similar to the RX 6700S, but it brings lower clocks and less memory. The 28 CUs and 1,792 cores are kept, as well as the consumption of up to 80 W and the 32 MB Infinity Cache, but the Game Clock only reaches 1,881 MHz, while the VRAM is limited to 4 GB GDDR6. At its best configurations, the GPU should offer 6.7 TFLOPs of computational power, targeting the RTX 3060 Max-Q.
