According to the price comparison, 10 different models are already available at launch time. This graphics card is supposed to compete with the GeForce GTX 1060. In order to break the market dominance, Asus pioneers with the 17-inch ROG Strix GL702ZC, which uses a Radeon RX 580 with 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM regardless of the configuration. This is sorely needed since Intel and Nvidia can currently freely dictate prices, which often makes powerful devices unnecessarily expensive. As a result, more notebooks with AMD technology might be launched again. While AMD's last processor architecture did not stand a chance against the competition from Intel - especially in terms of power consumption and performance per MHz, the brand new Ryzen generation can finally close the gap to the top thanks to its huge core count and improved energy efficiency.

The problems should be solved now, however. A10-4600M in the MSI GX60), which also proved to be a bottleneck in games. Radeon HD 7970M in the Schenker XMG P502) or very weak CPU performance (e.g. While a few exotic devices sported AMD hardware in the past years, most of them disappointed due to driver problems (e.g.

We feel that 99.9% of all new high-end laptops come with a quad-core CPU from Intel's Kaby Lake generation ( Core i5-7300HQ up to i7-7820HK) and a Pascal GPU from Nvidia ( GeForce GTX 1060 up to GTX 1080). While demanding gamers can choose processor and graphics card quite freely in the desktop PC range, there are much fewer options for notebooks at least for AMD fans. For the original German version, click here.

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