Full RX 470 In Laptops? Alienware 15 and 17 Announced

A month agone we outlined the launch of the Radeon RX 470 and the Radeon RX 460 following a call with AMD. In that release we outlined the fact that we would exist seeing fully fledged RX 460s being put into laptops and not relying on a cut downwards variant with the aforementioned proper noun. Merely this shocker from Alienware has actually stepped up their game. I'll be lying if I said this didn't take me by complete surprise and left me rubbing my eyes. Alienware pretty much said 'meh', we want Polaris ten, not its little blood brother. And Radeon delivered.

Enter the RX 470 for laptops. This isn't the RX 470m where it's similar the R9 m290x that's nada like the R9 290x, but just similar their competitor AMD has managed to become their desktop GPU to fully function in a gaming laptop.

Coming in at two sizes we're looking the Alienware 15 and 17, both packing the RX 470 graphics menu and featuring a host of upgrades over their previous model. They've slimmed downward the chassis and beefed upwards the cooling. RGB LEDs? Check. Tobii Middle-Tracking? Check….wait a minute? Yes, but but on the 17" model. Alienware seems to be actually showing some honey to Radeon this time effectually, but then again information technology's been a while since they've been able to put out a premium gaming laptop featuring Radeon graphics.

A lot of the other specifications remain to be seen until the configurator goes alive, simply we do know that both characteristic up to 3TB of storage space and full compatibility with the Graphics Amplifier external GPU case. This is a useful feature for some who wouldn't mind adding in a beefier card when at home but still having a very capable graphics card on the go.

It certainly looks like Radeon is fix to compete in areas that it hasn't in quite some fourth dimension. Pricing isn't available at the time of this post merely Alienware should have these gear up to be configured by September 30th this twelvemonth.

Souce: Radeon.com

AMD Polaris GCN 4.0 GPU Lineup:

Graphics Card Proper noun	AMD Radeon RX 480	AMD Radeon RX 470	AMD Radeon RX 470D	AMD Radeon RX 460 1024 SPs	AMD Radeon RX 460
Graphics Core	Polaris 10	Polaris x	Polaris 10	Polaris 11	Polaris 11
Process Node	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET	14nm FinFET
Die Size	232mm2	232mm2	232mm2	123mm2	123mm2
Transistors	5.vii Billion	5.7 Billion	5.7 Billion	3.0 Billion	3.0 Billion
Stream Processors	2304 SPs	2048 SPs	1792 SPs	1024 SPs	896 SPs
Clock Frequency	1266 MHz	1206 MHz	1206 MHz	1200 MHz	1200 MHz
Compute Operation	5.8 TFLOPs	4.nine TFLOPs	4.iii TFLOPs	2.56 TFLOPs	two.2 TFLOPs
VRAM	iv/8 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	iv GB GDDR5	2/iv GB GDDR5
Bus Interface	256-bit	256-bit	256-chip	128-scrap	128-bit
Memory Speed	viii GHz	6.6 GHz	half-dozen.6 GHz	7 GHz	7 GHz
Memory Bandwidth	256 GB/s	211 GB/southward	211 GB/s	112 GB/s	112 GB/south
TDP	150W	120W	110W	75W	75W
Launch Date	29th June	fourth Baronial	20th October	TBD	8th Baronial
Launch Price	$199 US (four GB) $239 US (viii GB)	$179 The states (4 GB)	$149 US (4 GB)	TBD	$99 US (2 GB) $119 US (4 GB)
New Price	$199 US (four GB) $239 US (eight GB)	$169 United states of america (four GB)	$149 US (4 GB)	TBD	$99 Us (iv GB) $89 The states (2 GB)