At CES 2021, high-performance gaming laptops are finally switching over to AMD, bringing the most powerful graphics to Ryzen systems for the first time.
For the first time in a long time, high-end gaming laptops are choosing AMD over Intel. At CES 2021, companies like Asus and Lenovo moved over a majority of their PCs and gaming laptops to AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 platform. It’s a huge success for AMD, which has been the budget brand in the past, especially on the laptop front. In 2021, however, online retailers will be filled with AMD-powered gaming machines featuring high-end graphics cards like the Nvidia RTX 3080. AMD gamers are rejoicing, but why the change? AMD will say that building trust takes time — and that’s undoubtedly true. But there’s more to it than that. There’s no doubt that 2020 was the year AMD set out to stake a claim in the world of laptops with its Ryzen 4000 series processors — and it was a rousing success. Ryzen 4000 stuffed multi-core performance into 15-watt laptops in a way that the world hadn’t seen before. Eight cores and 16 threads in a laptop thinner than a MacBook Air? Yup — and at lower price points than the standard Intel configurations too.
