A lineup of new AMD Ryzen-powered laptops were just dropped by Dell and their subsidiary brand, Alienware.
According to Tom's Hardware, there's a total of three new gaming laptops from the two brands that people can choose from. These are the Alienware m17 R5 and m15 R7, and a Dell G15 (5525). The specs for these laptops are as follows:
Alienware m17 R5: Up to a Ryzen 9 6980HX CPU, a choice of either NVIDIA RTX 30-series or Radeon RX 6850M XT graphics, up to 64GB of DDR5 RAM, up to 4TB of PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, HDMI 2.1, 3 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, 165/360Hz refresh rates at 1080p and 120Hz refresh rate for 4K, a Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E adapter, and 64 Whr standard battery up to 97 Whr.
Alienware m15 R7: Up to a Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU, up to an RTX 3080 Ti mobile (no Radeon option), 165/360Hz refresh rates at 1080p/240Hz refresh rate for 1440p, up to 64GB DDR5, up tp 4TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, the same ports and Wi-Fi 6 adapters as the m17 r5, and a 56 Whr standard battery up to 86 Whr.
Dell G15 (5225): Up tp a Ryzen 9 6900HX, RTX 3050/3050 Ti/3060/3070 Ti mobile, 120Hz/165Hz refresh rate for 1080p/240Hz refresh rate for 1440p, up to 32GB DDR5, up to 2TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD, a Wi-Fi 6 adapter, the same ports as the two first laptops, and a similar 56 Whr standard battery up to 86 Whr.
You can have the m17 R5 for a starting price of $1599, the m15 R7 for $1499, and the G15 (5525) for the lowest price out of all the three at $899. But all of these prices are actually among the best considering the specs of the three gaming laptops.
Specs Deep Dive
You'll never go wrong with the AMD Ryzen CPUs on either of these three laptops. The Ryzen 9 6980HX and 6900HX are both pretty powerful chips on their own right. The 6980HX features 8 cores, 16 threads, with a clock speed of up to 5Ghz on boost. As for the 6900HX, you get the same number of cores and threads and a slightly lower boost clock of 4.9Ghz.
As for the integrated graphics and display specs, they're not too shabby as well - considering the price range of these gaming laptops.
Even the mobile versions of NVIDIA's RTX 30-series graphics cards are capable gamers. Just make sure that you get the one that fits your specific gaming needs. If you're fine with 1080p gaming, go for the RTX 3060-equipped laptops at least (both the Alienware laptops in this case).
But be sure to get something beefier like a 3070 mobile or beyond (including the Radeon equivalent) if you want to play at 1440p and 4K resolutions, more so with the high refresh rate options.
Which one do you think is right for you?
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Written by RJ Pierce
