Ryzen 5000 allowed AMD to double its presence in gaming laptops, but graphics don't go

AMD has pledged to make impressive strides in gaming laptops this year, and so far, judging by the range of gaming laptops available to order or pre-order, this trend is indeed showing.

Video blogger GizmoSlipTech has compiled a list of gaming laptops with GeForce RTX 30 series accelerators that are available for purchase or pre-order. As of January 15, 28 of these notebooks are based on Intel processors and 13 are based on AMD processors.

That is, AMD owns a pretty solid share in 32% of gaming laptops versus 68% for Intel. At the same time, the list did not include several announced, but not yet released to the market, models like Lenovo Legion and Alienware m15 and m17, as well as ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, TUF 15 and TUF 17. Recall that Lenovo and ASUS models are built on AMD Ryzen, and Alienware - Intel Core. Considering these models, AMD will have 36% against 64% for Intel.

Share of AMD processors among gaming laptops 2021 (as of January 15)

Of course, Intel Core still dominates the models, but the dynamics are clear. When compiling a similar selection in 2020, Intel accounted for 85% of laptops with GeForce RTX 20 or GeForce GTX 16 series gaming graphics cards.

A similar schedule for 2020

AMD's key achievement is the advent of laptops, where its processors are used in conjunction with high-end graphics cards like the GeForce RTX 2070 or RTX 2080. In the Ryzen 4000 era, the best AMD could count on was GeForce RTX 2060 graphics. AMD and the laptop makers about it explained that they were initially cautious in their predictions and did not expect strong demand for AMD processors in flagship gaming laptops.

AMD Share of 2021 Flagship Gaming Laptops

AMD is doing well this year. Now, as many as nine laptops use the Ryzen 5000 paired with a GeForce 3070 or GeForce 3080 (up from zero last year). And this is only the beginning of the year - perhaps 2021 will really be AMD's finest hour in the gaming mobile PC market.

Flagship gaming laptops simply didn't have AMD processors in 2020

Of course, the announced models are one thing, and the actual number of systems sold is quite another. But while high-end laptops with AMD processors are selling like hotcakes, supply is clearly not keeping up with demand. So the chances of success are very high.

Shares of manufacturers of graphics accelerators in gaming laptops

But it is not Intel or AMD that really dominates the market for high-end gaming laptops, but NVIDIA - the power of the latter is undivided, that is, literally 100%. AMD introduced several mobile Radeon graphics cards last year, but it is not possible to buy them in a real gaming laptop. And now the situation is exactly the same. But with RDNA 2 in 2021, AMD may start to make a difference in this area.