AMD's Radeon RX 7900M high-end RDNA 3 GPU officially makes its debut today in the Alienware m18 laptop featuring high-end specifications.

Alienware m18 Laptop First To Feature AMD Radeon 7900M RDNA 3 GPU: Navi 31 & 16 GB Fitted Alongside Ryzen 7045HX CPUs

The Alienware m18 has entered the market as the most powerful 18" "AMD Advantage" laptop. It has the latest and greatest AMD technologies which feature the fastest AMD Radeon GPUs & AMD Ryzen CPUs. The laptop can be configured with a range of Ryzen 7045HX CPUs up to the Ryzen 9 7945HX with 16 cores, 32 threads, and up to the latest Radeon RX 7900M GPU.

Alienware m18 is designed to prioritize power and watts to its components to allow gamers to experience their favorite games with high frame rates and graphics settings maximized on a laptop.The m18 features the latest AMD Ryzen 7000 Series mobile processors featuring up to 16 cores and 32 threads of multicore performance.Choose from the AMD Radeon 7600M XT graphics or the new flagship AMD Radeon7900M graphics, both featuring AMD RDNA3 architecture for raytracing and AI Accelerators for fast data inference and AI computation.AMD Radeon RX 7900M is the laptop GPU based on the new chipset design and is engineered to deliver high frame rates and high-resolution visuals in your games.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900M marks the return of the red team in the flagship mobility GPU segment which hasn't seen much action with the RDNA series. The Radeon RX 7900M makes use of the high-end RDNA 3 ASIC, Navi 31, with MCM technology featuring 5nm GCDs and 6nm MCDs. The GPU has a lot going on so let's start with the specifications.

Built on the groundbreaking AMD RDNA 3 architecture, the AMD Radeon RX 7900M is the first laptop GPU offering the advanced AMD chiplet design. Engineered to deliver state-of-the-art visuals and desktop-class high FPS gaming, the AMD Radeon RX 7900M GPU offers 72 AMD RDNA 3 compute units featuring new AI and second-generation raytracing accelerators, 16GB of high-speed GDDR6 VRAM along with advanced capabilities to push the limits of gaming and content creation on the go.

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The AMD Radeon RX 7900M GPU is based on the RDNA 3 graphics architecture and features a total of 36 WGPs or 72 Compute Units which make up a total of 4608 cores. That's 20% more cores than the 7800 XT & 10% lower cores than the 7900 GRE. In terms of memory, the GPU is equipped with a total of four MCDs which will enable a 256-bit wide bus interface & 16 GB memory capacities. That will get AMD on par with NVIDIA's top RTX 40 offerings such as the RTX 4090 which max out at 16 GB memory too. As for the power numbers, the AMD Radeon RX 7900M will be configured at a TGP of 160W & can be pushed up to 200W with SmartShift technologies.

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