New AMD Advantage Alienware m18 laptop powered by AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX processors and Radeon RX 7900M GPUs delivers desktop-class performance for gaming and content creation on the go

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) intro­du­ced flag­ship lap­top gra­phics pro­ces­sor AMD Rade­on™ RX 7900M, the fas­test AMD Rade­on™ GPU ever deve­lo­ped for lap­tops¹. Built on ground­brea­king AMD RDNA™ 3 archi­tec­tu­re, the new high-per­for­mance GPU brings incre­di­ble gam­ing and con­tent crea­ti­on per­for­mance to mobi­le sys­tems, deli­ve­ring 7% on avera­ge hig­her per­for­mance than the com­pe­ti­ti­ve offe­ring in sel­ect games at QHD reso­lu­ti­on².

In addi­ti­on, today Ali­en­wa­re announ­ced the latest mem­ber of the Ali­en­wa­re m18 lap­top fami­ly fea­turing the new AMD Rade­on GPUs. Powered by AMD Ryzen™ 9 7945HX pro­ces­sors and AMD Rade­on RX 7900M GPUs and lever­aging advan­ced AMD smart tech­no­lo­gies³, the Ali­en­wa­re m18 is the ulti­ma­te AMD Advan­ta­ge™ lap­top, offe­ring asto­nis­hing per­for­mance to power the most deman­ding games and con­tent crea­ti­on applications.

“The Ali­en­wa­re m18 is our most advan­ced and powerful AMD Advan­ta­ge lap­top, desi­gned to deli­ver no-com­pro­mi­ses, desk­top-level per­for­mance for gam­ing and con­tent crea­ti­on appli­ca­ti­ons,” said Frank Azor, chief archi­tect of Gam­ing Solu­ti­ons and Mar­ke­ting at AMD. “We work­ed clo­se­ly with Ali­en­wa­re on the deve­lo­p­ment of the sys­tem to offer the best mobi­le expe­ri­en­ces pos­si­ble, and we think cus­to­mers will be abso­lut­e­ly deligh­ted with what this sys­tem can do.”

“The Ali­en­wa­re m18 deli­vers the best mobi­le gam­ing solu­ti­ons with desk­top-level per­for­mance dri­ving a spa­cious 18-inch dis­play,” says Matt McGo­wan, Ali­en­wa­re Pro­duct Lead. “This per­for­mance jug­gernaut will trans­port you into your game-of-choice in style, and with full immersion.”

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, AV1 enco­ding and more to push the limits of gam­ing and con­tent crea­ti­on on the go. Key fea­tures include:

• AMD RDNA 3 Archi­tec­tu­re – Fea­tures rede­si­gned com­pu­te units with uni­fied ray­tra­cing and AI acce­le­ra­tors, second-gene­ra­ti­on AMD Infi­ni­ty Cache™ tech­no­lo­gy and second-gene­ra­ti­on ray­tra­cing technology.
• Dedi­ca­ted AI Acce­le­ra­ti­on – New AI acce­le­ra­tors are opti­mi­zed for the latest AI workloads. New AI ins­truc­tions and increased AI through­put are desi­gned to deli­ver more per­for­mance than AMD RDNA 2 architecture.
• 16GB VRAM for 1440P Gam­ing – 16GB of high-speed GDDR6 memo­ry enables gamers to expe­ri­ence the latest titles at 1440p and bey­ond, and allows con­tent crea­tors to unpack high-reso­lu­ti­on tex­tures, and ren­der com­plex 3D envi­ron­ments and ani­ma­ti­ons in real time.
• Impro­ved Strea­ming & Ultra-High-Defi­ni­ti­on Enco­ding – Impro­ved AMD enco­ders deli­ver enhan­ced visu­al qua­li­ty when strea­ming and recor­ding. AMD AI and con­tent adap­ti­ve machi­ne lear­ning tech­no­lo­gy has also been inte­gra­ted into the AMD Media Frame­work to enable shar­per text when strea­ming at low bit­ra­tes and reso­lu­ti­ons. In addi­ti­on, the encode/decode media engi­ne unlocks new mul­ti-media expe­ri­en­ces with full AV1 encode/decode sup­port, wide color gamut and high-dyna­mic ran­ge enhance­ments⁴.

Key Pro­duct Specifications

Model	Com­pu­te Units	GDDR6	Game Clock5 (MHz)	Boost Clock6 (MHz)	Memo­ry Interface	Infi­ni­ty Cache	TGP
AMD Rade­on RX 7900M	72	16GB	1825	Up to 2090	256-bit	64 MB	180W

Ulti­ma­te AMD Advan­ta­ge Laptop

The Ali­en­wa­re m18 lap­top is the latest addi­ti­on to the AMD Advan­ta­ge pro­duct fami­ly. AMD Advan­ta­ge^TM cer­ti­fied lap­tops are desi­gned and tes­ted to deli­ver the ulti­ma­te plat­form for gamers and crea­tors, offe­ring sta­te-of-the-art expe­ri­en­ces with new levels of per­for­mance and respon­si­ve­ness. They com­bi­ne the latest AMD Rade­on GPUs and AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors with AMD smart tech­no­lo­gies, AMD Soft­ware: Adre­na­line Edi­ti­on™ appli­ca­ti­on fea­tures, and other advan­ced sys­tem design cha­rac­te­ristics that deli­ver pre­mi­um com­pu­ting experiences.

In addi­ti­on to the new AMD Rade­on RX 7900M GPU, the Ali­en­wa­re m18 lap­top includes an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX pro­ces­sor with 16 cores and 32 threads for incre­di­ble gam­ing, pro­duc­ti­vi­ty, and crea­ti­vi­ty per­for­mance with the lea­der­ship effi­ci­en­cy of the AMD “Zen 4” architecture.

The sys­tem also com­bi­nes high-per­for­mance memo­ry, the latest in lap­top coo­ling tech­no­lo­gy and more to push the limits of gam­ing and pro­duc­ti­vi­ty. It offers a sel­ec­tion of high-qua­li­ty 18-inch QHD+ and FHD+ dis­play panels fea­turing 3ms respon­se time, 1000:1 con­trast ratio, 300 nits bright­ness and up to 480Hz refresh rate. In addi­ti­on, the sys­tem fea­tures a host of AMD smart tech­no­lo­gies that ele­va­te lap­top per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy to new levels:

• AMD SmartS­hift Max⁷ – Dyna­mi­cal­ly shifts extra power bet­ween AMD Rade­on GPUs and AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors in real-time to help boost per­for­mance for gam­ing, video editing, 3D ren­de­ring and con­tent crea­ti­on workloads.
• AMD Smart­Ac­cess Gra­phics – Auto­ma­ti­cal­ly swit­ches to the dis­crete AMD Rade­on GPU for maxi­mum gam­ing per­for­mance and redu­ced laten­cy while main­tai­ning AMD Free­Sync™ tech­no­lo­gy⁸.
• AMD Smart Access Memo­ry™⁹ – Unlocks hig­her per­for­mance by pro­vi­ding AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors with full access to the high-speed AMD Rade­on gra­phics memory.
• AMD Smart­Ac­cess Video¹⁰ – Intel­li­gent­ly divi­des the deco­ding and enco­ding workloads across AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors and AMD Rade­on gra­phics cards, deli­ve­ring hig­her levels of performance.

Avai­la­bi­li­ty

The Ali­en­wa­re m18 with AMD Rade­on RX 7900M GPU opti­ons is expec­ted to be available today, start­ing at $2,799.99 (US) / $3,799.99 (CA) on Alienware.com. Cont­act Ali­en­wa­re for more information.

Sup­port­ing Resources

• Learn more about AMD Rade­on RX gra­phics for lap­tops and the AMD Rade­on RX 7900M here
• Learn more about AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX pro­ces­sors here
• Learn more the Ali­en­wa­re m18 lap­top here
• Learn more about the AMD Advan­ta­ge Design Frame­work here
• Fol­low AMD on Lin­ke­dIn
• Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter

About AMD
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Lin­ke­dIn and Twit­ter pages. 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD pro­ducts inclu­ding the AMD Rade­on™ RX 7900M GPUs, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als, sub­stra­tes or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; abili­ty to achie­ve expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with expec­ted fea­tures and per­for­mance levels; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty inci­dents inclu­ding IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; poten­ti­al dif­fi­cul­ties in upgrading and ope­ra­ting AMD’s new enter­pri­se resour­ce plan­ning sys­tem; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; AMD’s abili­ty to rea­li­ze its defer­red tax assets; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons; impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments on AMD’s busi­ness and AMD’s abili­ty to inte­gra­te acqui­red busi­nesses; impact of any impair­ment of the com­bi­ned company’s assets on the com­bi­ned company’s finan­cial posi­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­on; rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes, the gua­ran­tees of Xilinx’s notes and the revol­ving cre­dit faci­li­ty; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments or gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow to make all of its plan­ned R&D or stra­te­gic invest­ments; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; and world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s most recent reports on Forms 10‑K and 10‑Q.

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¹ Test­ing done by AMD per­for­mance labs, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2023, on a Dell Ali­en­wa­re m18 equip­ped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and an AMD Rade­on RX 7900M, 32GB DDR5-4800MHz RAM, Video Dri­ver 22.40.76–230711a-394071C-Dell, Win 11 Pro and a Leno­vo Legi­on 7 equip­ped with an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and an AMD Rade­on RX 6850M XT, 32GB DDR5-4800MHz RAM, Video Dri­ver 21.40.40.07.220420a-378733C-Lenovo, Win 11 Pro. Tes­ted in the fol­lo­wing bench­marks: Time Spy Gra­phics Score, Time Spy Extre­me Gra­phics Score, Port Roy­al Gra­phics Score, Fire Strike Gra­phics Score, Fire Strike Extre­me Gra­phics Score, Fire Strike Ultra Gra­phics Score. Lap­top manu­fac­tu­r­ers may vary con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, yiel­ding dif­fe­rent results. Per­for­mance may vary. RM-145
² Test­ing done by AMD per­for­mance labs, August 9, 2023, on a Dell Ali­en­wa­re m18 lap­top equip­ped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and an AMD Rade­on RX 7900M, 32GB DDR5-4800MHz RAM, Video Dri­ver 22.40.76–230711a-394071C-Dell, Win 11, ver­sus an Aorus lap­top equip­ped with an Intel i7 13700H and an Nvi­dia GeForce RTX 4080, 16GB DDR5-5200MHz RAM, Video Dri­ver 536.67, Win 11. Tes­ted on the fol­lo­wing appli­ca­ti­ons and set­tings at 1440p: For­za Hori­zon 5 (RT) @ DX12 RT Maxed (RT), For­za Hori­zon 5 @ DX12 Maxed, Spi­der­man Miles Mora­les (RT) @ DX12 Maxed (RT), F1 2022 (RT) @ DX12 Ultra High (RT), DOOM Eter­nal (RT) @ Vul­kan Ultra Night­ma­re (RT), The Cal­lis­to Pro­to­col (RT) @ DX12 Ultra (RT), Metro Exodus Enhan­ced Edi­ti­on (RT) @ api:N/A Extre­me (RT), Dying Light 2 @ DX12 High, The Cal­lis­to Pro­to­col @ DX12 Ultra, Assassin’s Creed Val­hal­la @ DX12 Ultra High, Spi­der­man Miles Mora­les @ DX12 Maxed, Fors­po­ken (RT) @ DX12 Ultra­High (RT), Dead Space (RT) @ DX12 Ultra (RT), Fors­po­ken @ DX12 Ultra­High, Resi­dent Evil 4 (RT) @ DX12 Max (RT), Far Cry 6 (RT) @ DX12 Ultra (RT), Com­pa­ny Of Heroes @ DX12 Maxi­mum, Metro Exodus @ DX12 Extre­me, Resi­dent Evil 4 @ DX12 Max (No RT), F1 2022 @ DX12 Ultra High no RT, DOOM Eter­nal @ Vul­kan Ultra Night­ma­re, Dead Space @ DX12 Ultra, Star Wars Jedi Sur­vi­vor @ DX12 Epic, Con­trol @ DX12 High, Hog­warts Lega­cy @ DX12 Ultra, Call Of Duty: Modern War­fa­re 2 @ DX12 Extre­me, Far Cry 6 @ DX12 Ultra, Star­field @ DX12 Ultra (Default), Dirt 5 @ DX12 Ultra High, Bor­der­lands 3 @ DX12 Bad­ass, Cyber­punk 2077 @ DX12 Ultra. Lap­top manu­fac­tu­r­ers may vary con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, yiel­ding dif­fe­rent results. Per­for­mance may vary. RM-141
³ AMD smart tech­no­lo­gies, inclu­ding AMD Smart­Ac­cess Gra­phics, Smart­Ac­cess Sto­rage, Smart­Ac­cess Video, SmartS­hift Eco, SmartS­hift Max, and SmartS­hift RSR may requi­re OEM or deve­lo­per ena­blem­ent and are available with sel­ect con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons only. Sel­ect addi­tio­nal AMD hard­ware is requi­red. For addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on see https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-laptops. GD-216.
⁴ Video codec acce­le­ra­ti­on (inclu­ding at least the HEVC (H.265), H.264, VP9, and AV1 codecs) is sub­ject to and not ope­ra­ble wit­hout inclusion/installation of com­pa­ti­ble media play­ers. GD-176
⁵ Game clock is the expec­ted GPU clock when run­ning typi­cal gam­ing appli­ca­ti­ons, set to typi­cal TGP (Total Gra­phics Power). Actu­al indi­vi­du­al game clock results may vary. GD-147
⁶ Boost Clock Fre­quen­cy is the maxi­mum fre­quen­cy achie­va­ble on the GPU run­ning a burs­ty workload. Boost clock achie­va­bi­li­ty, fre­quen­cy, and sus­taina­bi­li­ty will vary based on seve­ral fac­tors, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to: ther­mal con­di­ti­ons and varia­ti­on in appli­ca­ti­ons and workloads. GD-151
⁷ SmartS­hift Eco tech­no­lo­gy and SmartS­hift Max tech­no­lo­gy requi­re OEM ena­blem­ent on sel­ect lap­tops with an AMD Rade­on RX 6000 Series gra­phics card and Ryzen 6000 Series mobi­le pro­ces­sor. GD-209
⁸ AMD Free­Sync™ tech­no­lo­gy requi­res AMD Rade­on™ gra­phics and a dis­play that sup­ports Free­Sync tech­no­lo­gy as cer­ti­fied by AMD. AMD Free­Sync™ Pre­mi­um tech­no­lo­gy adds requi­re­ments of man­da­to­ry low frame­ra­te com­pen­sa­ti­on and at least 120 Hz refresh rate at mini­mum FHD. AMD Free­Sync™ Pre­mi­um Pro tech­no­lo­gy adds requi­re­ments for the dis­play to meet AMD Free­Sync Pre­mi­um Pro com­pli­ance tests. See www.amd.com/freesync for com­ple­te details. Con­firm capa­bi­li­ty with your sys­tem manu­fac­tu­rer befo­re purcha­se. GD-127
⁹ Smart Access Memo­ry tech­no­lo­gy is com­pa­ti­ble with AMD Rade­on RX 5000 Series GPUs or later, Ryzen 3000 Series CPUs or later (exclu­ding Ryzen 5 3400G and Ryzen 3 3200G CPUs), AMD desk­top kits (4800S Series and later), and an AMD 500 Series mother­board or later with the latest BIOS update available at the ven­dor web­site. OEM sup­port is requi­red. For addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on see https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/smart-access-memory. GD-178
¹⁰ AMD smart tech­no­lo­gies, inclu­ding AMD Smart­Ac­cess Gra­phics, Smart­Ac­cess Sto­rage, Smart­Ac­cess Video, SmartS­hift Eco, SmartS­hift Max, and SmartS­hift RSR may requi­re OEM or deve­lo­per ena­blem­ent and are available with sel­ect con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons only. Sel­ect addi­tio­nal AMD hard­ware is requi­red. For addi­tio­nal infor­ma­ti­on see https://www.amd.com/en/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-laptops. GD-216.