Alienware Announces The World's Most Powerful Laptop: m17 R5 AMD Edition

Alienware has just announced its new m17 R5, calling it the world's most powerful laptop, with AMD Ryzen 6000 APUs. Users have the option to configure the laptop with a combination of NVIDIA GPUs or go with all AMD tech, featuring AMD Ryzen processor, AMD Radeon Graphics options, and AMD's Smart Technologies Smartshift MAX, Smart Access Memory. In addition, this first laptop now features Smart Access Graphics. Allowing the laptop to intelligently switch between the RDNA 2 iGPU on Ryzen APUs and RDNA discrete graphics based on the device's workload.

As far as the specs go, starting with the Alienware m17 R5 17.3-inch display, you can opt for an FHD 165 Hz (Freesync or GSYNC), FHD 360 Hz (Freesync or GSYNC), and UHD 120 Hz (Freesync and AMD Smart Access Graphics). In addition, the FHD panel features 300 nits brightness and 100% sRGB color gamut, while the UHD panel will have 500-nits brightness.

When it comes to CPU options, the Alienware AMD Advantage laptops are outfitted with the latest Ryzen 6000 APUs, codename Rembrandt, having the ZEN 3+ core architecture, and RDNA 2 iGPUs. With the M17 R5, you can choose between the Ryzen 7 6800H, Ryzen 9 6900H, and the Ryzen 9 6980HX, up to 8 cores at a whopping 5 GHz max boost, up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (16 GB /180w) or, AMD Radeon RX 6850M XT (12GB / 175w) discrete graphics. In addition, you can get up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR5-4800 memory. In addition, you get up to 4 TB PCIe NVMe SSD storage. Powering the laptop is a 64 Whr Lithium-ion battery; as an option, you can upgrade to a 97 Whr battery.

The entire chassis comprises a brand new Legend 2.0 industrial design that uses copper alloy thermal components. In addition, a vapor chamber explicitly made to cool Ryzen 9 and Radeon RX 6850M XT configurations. Finally, the color scheme uniquely has a Darkside of the Moon finish. There's already listed on the Alienware m17 R5, starting at $1599 US.