AMD announced its first line of graphics cards at CES 2023 RDNA 3 laptop-oriented and built on TSMC’s 6nm process, which consists of Radeon RX 7600M XT, RX 7600M, RX 7700S and RX 7600S. These graphics cards, in addition to using the last generation red giant architecture, stand out by supporting AV1 rendering (encoding) in hardware (reproduction was possible), supporting the second generation of the company’s ray tracing technology and artificial intelligence acceleration, which is important for FSR 3 to show its full strength.

The most powerful of the listed graphs is RX 7600M XT, which is, at least for the time being, the number one model among models aimed at Radeon notebooks. It works with a TDP that oscillates between 75 and 120 watts and has 32 compute units (CUs) that deliver 2,048 shader processors. It features 8GB of GDDR6 memory via a 128-bit interface and operates at 18Gbps and supports 32MB of infinite cache. According to data provided by AMD, it is balanced faster than the desktop GeForce RTX 3060 (a more powerful variant than the one aimed at laptops).

The RX 7600M, RX 7700S, and RX 7600S implement the same configurations at the memory and cache level, but the TDPs are from 50 to 90 watts for the former, from 75 to 100 watts for the latter, and from 50 to 75 watts for the latter. The number of shader processors is 1,792, 2,048 and 1,792 respectively. Notebook models that can be purchased with the RX 7000 notebook graphics card include e.g. Alienware M16 and M18 and ASUS TUF Gaming A16.

The RX 7000/RDNA 3 models shown by AMD are all mid-range. We’ll see if these graphics manage to convince of something more than the RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX for desktop, which did not quite meet the expectations around them, especially in terms of efficiency. Some voices pointed to a possibly immature architect as the origin of the problem.

On the other hand, AMD Radeon will have a lot of work to do if it wants to scratch anything in front of NVIDIA, which has been strongly established in the segment for many years thanks to the greater adaptability demonstrated by its GPUs and proprietary technologies. , which have become essential for many gamers and professional users.