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AMD unveils Radeon RX 7900M GPUs in high-end Alienware m18 gaming laptop

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Advanced Micro Devices announced the AMD Radeon RX 7900M graphics processing unit (GPU), which will be featured in the upcoming Alienware m18 laptop.

The Alienware system coming soon will also feature the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX mobile processor. The new graphics chip features AMD RDNA 3 architecture, AMD’s first chiplet laptop graphics, high FPS QHD gaming, second-generation ray tracing accelerators and AI accelerators.

Alienware m18 laptop specs.

The RX 7900M has 72 unified compute units, 72 RT accelerators, 144 AI accelerators, and a game clock of 1825 MHz. It has 16GB of GDDR6 memory, and runs on up to 180 watts of power.

AMD said that the RX 7900M 16GB runs Cyberpunk 2077 38% faster than the 12GB Nvidia RTX 4080 laptop GPU. The Alienware m18 comes out in Q4 with an 18-inch QHD+ or FHD+ screen.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.