- Ben Conrad of AMD was interviewed by Notebookcheck.net
- The executive was questioned about the perspectives of Laptops of DNA 4 in the future
- Conrad’s response was vague, but he lets clearly suggest that we should not expect anything on the DNA 4 mobile front in the near future
AMD ADNT 4 graphics cards soon arrive on office PCs in March 2025, but if you hoped that these new generation GPUs could be in one of the best gaming laptops in something like a Near future, well, you can apparently forget that idea.
This nugget of news comes from an interview that Notebookcheck.net has carried out with Ben Conrad of AMD, who is director of product management for a premium mobile client in the company (via Videocardz).
The technological site asked the following question: “Do you see perspectives for Laptops of DNA 4?” Unfortunately, the number of SKUs based on AMD DGPU has been quite anemic. »»
Conrad replied: “Our current graphic strategy focuses on the office market with DNA 4. So I think you will see these types of products first in the future. Admittedly, DNA 4 and future graphic technologies will be mobile, whether on APU or future products. »»
To clarify, laptops based on the DGPU designates notebooks with discreet graphics cards, which means a separate GPU, rather than integrated graphics (integrated into the processor, which is the solution with a good number of laptops executed , due to space constraints and thermal factors).
Thus, the idea of a mobile DNA 4 DNA DNA graphics card – the L for the L for the Laptop of the RX 9070 desktop card, for example – is not something on the short -term radar of AMD. We can finally get RDNA 4 products for Mobile, but Conrad is quite vague on the moment when it could happen, which gives the impression that it is something that is on the bucket for the moment.
For 2025, it therefore seems that the Costaud GPUs for laptops of play will be mobile graphics cards RTX 5000 from NVIDIA, and they will not be disputed by any discreet offer of DNA 4.
Analysis: not a surprise, really
Is it a big surprise? Not exactly, because Radeon was not a huge presence in the GPUs of discreet laptops anyway, and in addition to that, DNA 4 was a strange generation of AMD. I mean on the desktop, it was allegedly reduced to mid -range GPUs like the fastest offers (rumors indicate a high -end solution on the table initially), the red team focusing on taking movement greater with the next generation. (This could be RDNA 5, or perhaps UDNA instead, which is considered by some as the next step in the AMD graphic roadmap).
There are also rumors some time ago that DNA 4 is not provided for laptops, even in the form of APU with integrated graphics, for some time. The big new APU of AMD (including Strix Point Halo, of which there is a certain major excitement) uses an integrated GPU which is DNA 3.5 (a refreshment of DNA 3, somewhat refined), not the DNA 4.
Indeed, the rumor mill previously advanced the idea that DNA 3.5 (or DNA 3+ as it is alternately known) will be used in GPUs integrated in APU of AMD for this year, and in 2026 .
Of course, all this is very deep in the field of speculation, but Conrad’s comments here certainly correspond to the idea that DNA 4 will only be office GPU only in the foreseeable future.
This does not mean that nothing exciting is happening with AMD on the front of laptops, of course, because Strix Halo is certainly a huge development, but for finer gaming laptops with integrated graphs, which are Very different animals to larger notebooks with discreet GPUs. However, the assertion is that the graphics integrated into the APU Ryzen AI Max + 395 (Strix Halo) surpasses the graphics card of the RTX 4070 laptop, an assertion to raise the eyebrows.
