- AMD’s Ben Conrad was interviewed by notebookcheck.net
- Exec was asked about the prospects of RDNA 4 -Bearing computers in the future
- Conrad’s answer was guard but clearly suggests that we should not expect anything on RDNA 4 -Mobilfront in the near future
AMDS RDNA 4 graphics cards will soon come to Desktop PCs in March 2025, but if you hoped these next generation GPUs could be in one of the best game-bearable computers in something like the near future, yes , you can apparently forget that idea.
This nugget of news comes from an interview that notebookcheck.net performed with AMD’s Ben Conrad, director of product management for Premium mobile client at the company (via Videocardz).
The Technical Site asked the following questions: “Do you see the prospects of RDNA 4 lapsible computers that move on? Unfortunately, the number of AMD DGPU-based Laptop SKUs has been pretty anemical. “
Conrad replied: “Our current graphics strategy is focused on the desktop market with RDNA 4. So, I think you will see these types of products first in the future. Certainly, RDNA 4 and future graphics technologies will make it mobile, whether on APUs or future products. “
To clarify, DGPU-based laptops mean notes with discreet graphics cards, which means a separate GPU rather than integrated graphics (built into the processor, which is the solution that a good number of laptops run with, due to space restrictions and thermal factors).
So the idea of a discreet mobile RDNA 4-graphics card-the laptop computer equivalent with the RX 9070 desktop card does not say anything on AMD’s closer radar. We may get RDNA 4 products for mobile in the end, but Conrad is pretty vigilant about when it can happen, which makes it sound like it’s something on backburner for now.
By 2025, it seems that the beef GPUs for Game -Bearing Computers will be Nvidia’s RTX 5000 mobile graphics card and they will not be challenged by any discreet RDNA 4 offerings.
Analysis: not a surprise, really
Is this a big surprise? Not exactly because Radeon has not been a huge presence in discreet portable GPUs anyway, and on top of that, RDNA 4 has been a strange generation from AMD. By which I mean on the desk, it was allegedly cut down to the middle class GPUs as the fastest offers (rumors pointing to an advanced solution on table generation. (It could be RDNA 5, or maybe take care of the place, as some assumed to be the next step on AMD’s graphics timetable).
There have also been rumors from some time ago that RDNA 4 is not scheduled for laptops, even in the form of APUs with integrated graphics, for quite a long time. AMD’s big new APUs (including Strix Point Halo, which is a certain great voltage around) uses an integrated GPU that is RDNA 3.5 (an update of RDNA 3, somewhat beaten), not RDNA 4.
In fact, the rumor mill has previously put forward the idea that RDNA 3.5 (or RDNA 3+, as it is alternatively known), will be used in integrated GPUs in AMD APUs for this year and in 2026.
Of course, all this is very deep into the area of speculation, but Conrad’s comments here are definitely suitable for the idea that RDNA 4 will be desktop GPUs only in the foreseeable future.
This does not mean that there is nothing exciting with AMD on the laptop, of course, because Strix Halo is definitely a huge development, but for thinner game laptops with integrated graphics, which are very different animals than larger notebooks with discreet GPU ‘ is. The claim is still that the integrated graphics in Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo) APU surpass the RTX 4070 portable graphics card, an eyebrow-raising claim.
