
Alienware m17 R5 laptop review: All-AMD gamer with great potential, but driver problems
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX | AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT | 17.00" | 3.4 kg
The AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT is a mobile high-end graphics card for gaming laptops. It uses the Navi 22 chip based on the new RDNA 2 architecture. It uses all 2,560 shaders (= 40 CUs), 160 TMUs, and 64 ROPs and therefore is similar to the desktop Radeon RX 6700 XT. The 192 Bit memory system connects 12 GB GDDR6 with 18 Gbps memory speed. Furthermore, the RX6850MXT includes 96 MB Infinity Cache. AMD specified 2.463 GHz game clock for 13.3 TFLOPS theoretical performance (SP) at a TDP of 135-165 Watt. The difference to the previous RX 6800M is the slightly increased clock speed of the CPU and GPU.
The gaming performance of the RX 6850M XT should be slightly faster than the old RX 6800M which positioned itself between a RTX 3070 and 3080 for laptops. For
The Navi 22 chip is manufactured at TSMC in the modern 7nm process.
Radeon RX 6000M Series
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Codename | Navi 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architecture | RDNA 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pipelines | 2560 - unified | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 2463 (Boost) MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Speed | 18000 MHz | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Bus Width | 192 Bit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | GDDR6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Max. Amount of Memory | 12 GB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
API | DirectX 12, Shader 6.4, OpenGL 4.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power Consumption | 145 Watt | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Transistor Count | 17.2 Billion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
technology | 7 nm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Features | DisplayPort 1.4 w/DFSC, HDMI 2.0b, Radeon Media Engine (H.264 4K150 decode, 4K90 encode / H.265 4K90 decode, 4K60 encode / VP9 4K90 decode) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notebook Size | large | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 04.01.2022 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com |
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 | 86 | 54 | ||||
F1 22 | 245 | 241 | 204 | 52 | 31 | |
Cyberpunk 2077 1.6 | 160 | 135.5 | 105.8 | 87.2 | 55 | 26 |
Dying Light 2 | 136 | 107 | 86 | 60 | 30 | |
God of War | 89 | 95.6 | 94.5 | 78.4 | 64.7 | |
Guardians of the Galaxy | 130 | 131 | 132 | 129 | 103 | |
Far Cry 6 | 123 | 112 | 100 | 99 | 87 | |
F1 2021 | 351 | 308 | 297 | 146 | 95 | |
Hitman 3 | 211.9 | 192.6 | 192.9 | 191.3 | 136.1 | |
Assassin´s Creed Valhalla | 235 | 159 | 130 | 112 | 85 | 47 |
Dirt 5 | 270 | 169.5 | 131.7 | 110.5 | 89.3 | |
Watch Dogs Legion | 120 | 119 | 108 | 83 | 60 | |
Horizon Zero Dawn | 181 | 159 | 142 | 123 | 100 | |
Gears Tactics | 153 | 252.2 | 155.5 | 117.8 | 83.6 | |
Borderlands 3 | 112.8 | 102.1 | 94.2 | 85.6 | 68.6 | |
Metro Exodus | 157.4 | 150.7 | 109.6 | 86.9 | 68.4 | |
Strange Brigade | 410 | 297 | 259 | 227 | 166 | 92.1 |
Far Cry 5 | 126 | 109 | 105 | 102 | 99 | 68 |
X-Plane 11.11 | 65 | 51 | 44 | 27.5 | ||
Final Fantasy XV Benchmark | 180.6 | 148.5 | 113 | 84 | 48.8 | |
Dota 2 Reborn | 141 | 114 | 113 | 95 | 77.5 | |
The Witcher 3 | 303 | 225 | 198 | 122 | 72.2 | |
GTA V | 176 | 171 | 157 | 95 | 89 | 98.5 |
low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 3 19 | 1 7 14 | 1 10 11 | 1 12 6 | 2 16 2 | 2 4 5 |
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