AMD announces RX 6000M series mobile graphics and FidelityFX Super Resolution

AMD announced a host of new products today at Computex 2021. The first of these is the Radeon RX 6000M series mobile graphics, the company's latest and most powerful series of graphics processors for notebooks.

The RX 6000M series currently includes the flagship RX 6800M GPU with 40 compute units and 12GB of video memory, along with the RX 6700M with 36 CU and 10GB VRAM, and RX 6600M with 28 CU and 8GB VRAM. All three are capable of hardware-accelerated ray tracing (DXR) and feature, 96, 80, and 32MB of Infinity Cache, respectively, on the GPU to reduce latency.

AMD claims the RX 6800M is capable of 1440p gaming at 120fps, while the RX 6700M can do 1440p gaming at 100fps, both at maxed settings. Meanwhile, the RX 6600M can do 1080p gaming at 100fps, also at maxed settings.

Notebooks that also feature AMD Ryzen CPU alongside these Radeon graphics processors will also benefit from technologies, such as AMD Smart Access Memory, which provides the CPU with access to the GDDR6 memory on the GPU (a.k.a. resizable BAR), as well as AMD SmartShift Technology, which automatically shifts power between the CPU and GPU based on where it's most needed.

AMD also announced its new Advantage Design Framework, a program developed with PC hardware partners, which will see upcoming laptops featuring AMD CPU, GPU, software, and other AMD features such as FreeSync, all in one machine.

AMD Advantage laptops, including the ASUS ROG Strix G15/G17, featuring Radeon RX 6800M, Ryzen 5900X, and other AMD technologies will be available beginning early June.

AMD today also announced its much anticipated FidelityFX Super Resolution feature or FSR. Like Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling or DLSS, FSR is designed to upsample from a lower resolution with the goal being to improve performance during demanding applications that use features like ray-tracing while maintaining image quality.

FSR is a spatial upscaling technology and works on a frame-by-frame basis. Unlike DLSS, FSR does not require dedicated hardware as there's no machine learning component involved. The more interesting thing is that it works on most GPUs, including AMD's RX 6000, 5000, 500, and Vega series, as well as Nvidia GPUs starting with the 10-series.

Like Nvidia, AMD will be offering FSR in multiple tiers, including an ultra quality, quality, balanced, and performance preset, although ultimately it depends on how the developer wants to implement it.

While all this does seem impressive on the surface, FSR is a much more simple solution compared to DLSS with no AI image reconstruction or accounting for motion vectors. In that, it's more similar to the upsampling performed by something like a television on a low-resolution signal, rather than DLSS, which is also why it works on more hardware.

AMD showed a brief demo of FSR working on an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 and while there is a performance advantage of using the technique, even in the video the image looks blurrier. Still, we will reserve final judgment when the feature ships on June 22.

And finally, AMD also announced two new APUs for the desktop DIY market. The Ryzen 7 5700G and the Ryzen 5 5600G are based on the same new Zen 3 CPU architecture as the other Ryzen 5000 series CPUs and also feature integrated Radeon Graphics.

The Ryzen 7 5700G has 8-cores and 16-threads, 3.8GHz base clock, 4.6Ghz boost clock, 8 CU GPU, and a 65W TDP. The Ryzen 5 5600G has a 6-cores, 12-threads, 3.9GHz base clock, 4.4GHz boost clock, 7 CU GPU, and a 65W TDP. Both APUs will come with a Wraith Steal cooler in the box.

The Ryzen 7 5700G is priced at $359 and the Ryzen 5 5600G is priced at $259. They will be available starting August 5.

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