At CES today, AMD announced plans to offer RDNA 2-based notebooks within the next six months of 2021 and new mainstream desktop GPUs around the same time.

The biggest announcements in Dr. Lisa Su's CES 2021 keynote were the introduction of Ryzen 5000 CPUs into thin and light laptops and the February launch of the Ryzen 5000HX series of processors for gaming laptops.

In other words, AMD will introduce a large number of gaming laptops with Ryzen HX chips in February, and these laptops will likely feature the soon-to-be-announced Nvidia RTX 30 series mobile GPUs. AMD's Radeon RX 6000 RDNA 2 GPUs for mobile later this year, so the HX chips will sit alongside the Green Team's silicon until then.

"We plan to launch the first notebooks with RDNA 2 in the first half of this year with our partners," Dr. Suh said at the event.

We were able to see a short demo of Dirt 5 recording over 60 fps at very high settings of 1440p.

It is good to see that more and more gaming laptops are now adopting QHD resolutions, and especially that laptop graphics cards that can actually achieve high frame rates at that resolution are now available.

"We will also see new mainstream RDNA 2 graphics card designs in the first half of this year," she continues.

These are expected to be the two key beats at Nvidia's own CES press conference today, gaming laptop graphics and mainstream desktop GPUs, so it's a good thing for AMD to have a green team to keep things in their own hands throughout 2021. It was extremely important for AMD to be able to actually announce that it would not be letting the green team have its way during 2021. [However, AMD will catch up as Nvidia is expected to announce both first. The same thing will happen again.