Dell and Alienware announced a suite of new AMD machines at PAX East that feature the new AMD Ryzen 6000 processors. The long-awaited Alienware m17 R5 and m15 R7 are available now, along with the new Dell G15, which you can pick up for just $900.
Although AMD launched its Ryzen 6000 processors in February, there weren’t too many laptops available with them. Dell and Alienware join Asus on the small but growing list of vendors offering AMD’s Zen 3+ architecture.
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The Alienware m17 R7 starts at $1,500, while the larger 17-inch m17 R5 starts at $1,600. Although the machines ship with Ryzen 6000 H-series processors, they are paired with one of Nvidia’s RTX 30-series mobile GPUs. Dell says AMD Advantage Edition configurations — which pair an AMD CPU and GPU — will be available for the m17 R5 later this spring.
Both machines are slightly more premium than Dell’s non-Alienware offerings. The M17 R5 is available with a 4K display, for example, and both devices support Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.
For specs, the 17-inch model can support up to an octa-core Ryzen 9 6980HX, which is the most powerful Ryzen 6000 chip AMD currently offers. You can pair it with up to 64GB of DDR5 memory, along with an RTX 3080 Ti mobile GPU.
If you’re looking for something cheaper, the new Dell G15 is for you. It starts at just $900 for a Ryzen 5 6600H, Nvidia RTX 3050 and 8GB of DDR5 memory. However, you can scale it much higher, up to an Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti, Ryzen 9 6900HX and 32GB of DDR5 memory. The base model comes with a 1080p display with a 120Hz refresh rate, but you can upgrade to a 1440p display with a 240Hz refresh rate.
AMD’s Ryzen 6000 processors are largely based on the last generation Ryzen 5000 offering. The underlying architecture is similar, but the Ryzen 6000 takes advantage of the smaller 6nm manufacturing process to achieve higher clock speeds and better thermals. These chips also come with integrated graphics powered by RDNA 2 — the same architecture behind AMD’s RX 6000 graphics cards — but you’ll probably want to stick with a discrete GPU for gaming.
All three models are already available at Dell, and are offered in several different configurations. All three machines ship with Windows 11 pre-installed.
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Alongside the three laptops, Alienware has announced the Aurora Ryzen Edition R14 gaming desktop. It’s been a few years since Alienware updated its AMD desktop lineup (we reviewed the previous Aurora R10 Ryzen release in 2019). The new R14 model has the design that Alienware introduced with Intel processors in October 2021.
In addition to the new case design — which for the first time has a clear side panel — the new Aurora Ryzen Edition is available with AMD’s Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor. Dell offers it with AMD or Nvidia graphics card, up to RX 6900 XT or RTX 3090.
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Source: newstars.edu.vn