AMD Advantage™ enables the smartest and most powerful gaming laptops today, here’s how

The world of gaming laptops has evolved by leaps and bounds. Gaming laptops these days are not necessarily bulky. With new efficient processors, these laptops offer slim and sleek designs, allowing for greater portability. The latest technologies allow gaming laptops to offer unprecedented power along with thermal and power efficiency. One great example of such technologies is the AMD Advantage™ platform. With AMD’s certification, users can rest assured that laptops bearing the AMD Advantage™ badge will offer the best possible performance and graphics rendering quality at any point in time.

One of the key differentiating features that any AMD Advantage™ laptop offers is the ability for processors to automatically switch the level of performance that’s required, thereby optimising power consumption. With this and a host of other cutting-edge technologies to boot, let’s look at how AMD Advantage™ makes a difference and its impact in real-world situations.

AMD Smart Shift – Intelligent performance management for all

Smart Shift is one of the mainstays of the AMD Advantage™ laptop features. With Smart Shift, AMD gaming laptops get a hardware interface to boost laptop performance, when required. This hardware chip is combined with a machine learning algorithm, which is trained to recognise heavy workloads on a laptop.

As a result, when an AMD Advantage™ laptop recognises that you are gaming, the AMD firmware can automatically boost graphics performance to the maximum – increasing the overall performance of a laptop by around 14 percent. Smart Shift also caters to creators and can offer a balanced boost to both the CPU and the GPU to carry out video-rendering tasks.

The feature is a prime example of how AMD Advantage™ laptops do not just come with best-in-class specifications for all-around good performance, but improve the overall performance with both hardware and software performance boosts. The feature is available with the latest generation AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series CPUs, as well as AMD Radeon™ RX 6000 series discrete GPUs.

Smart Access Memory™ – A boost to your GPU

A key part of AMD’s desktop offering, Smart Access Memory™, allows AMD-powered gaming PCs to eke out a performance gain of nearly 15 percent by using all-AMD configurations. A part of the AMD Advantage suite of features, Smart Access Memory is available with AMD Ryzen™ 5000 and select AMD Ryzen™ 3000 series CPUs, and will also be available with the latest AMD Ryzen™ 6000 series CPUs. Users can buy one of the above-mentioned CPUs, and pair it with an AMD Radeon™ 6000 series GPU.

With such a configuration and with compatible motherboards, users can get up to 15 percent more powerful gaming performance, thanks to increased access to the video memory of a PC’s GPU, in comparison to what you typically get. The system makes the most of the latest PCIe interface for higher bandwidth data transfers between the GPU and the CPU. To put it simply, AMD Advantage™ ensures that users get the richest possible graphics and performance prowess – to enable smooth gameplay in even the most demanding AAA video games that you’d want to play.

FidelityFX Super Resolution – Next-gen upscaling

One of the most rewarding aspects of AMD Advantage™ is the ability of this technology to enable rich graphics, and also to upscale content in terms of its resolution and frame rates. It achieves this thanks to a proprietary technology called FidelityFX™ Super Resolution (FSR), which can upscale video games to near-native resolution quality. This feature uses spatial resolution upscaling algorithm, and now temporal upscaling with FSR 2.0, to bring out ultra-crisp edges and super vivid colours in both old games and new ones. It also ensures that you can continue to enjoy the best possible graphics quality, without needing to buy a new gaming laptop or upgrade your desktop GPU just to keep up with the advances of a new game.

For new games, FSR enables the ability to maximise the GPU performance thanks to its upscaling algorithm. AMD has maximised compatibility for the feature to ensure that a vast number of popular AAA (flagship) video games support this feature. From Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and God of War to Far Cry 6, the Resident Evil series, and even Death Stranding, AMD Advantage™ truly hits the nail on the head by letting you play all of these award-winning games at better resolution, sharpness and fidelity than what any other computing platform can render.

AMD FreeSync – Everyone deserves lag-free gaming

One of the biggest advantages of AMD Advantage™ laptops is the AMD FreeSync technology on the premium displays offered by these portables. An AMD mainstay for a really long time, FreeSync ensures that users get access to the best frame rate matching interface in the industry. As the technology is compatible with industry-wide solutions such as the latest DisplayPort connectivity medium, you get both professional desktop monitors and certified laptop monitors that can match your video game’s frame rate, with a variable refresh rate adjustment.

How it works is that with FreeSync enabled, your gaming laptop or desktop will be able to synchronise the frame rates rendered by your GPU and the frame rates supported by your display. This ensures that there is no tear or any visual differences, artefacts, or glitches when you play a video game that can run at high frame rates. Not just a feature for demanding gamers who want the best of quality, AMD FreeSync ensures the best gaming quality at any price point, and for everyone.

Innovative heat management and designs

With AMD Advantage™, any laptop bearing this tag will have to match a minimum set of specifications that ensure fan speed optimisations and temperature limits through innovative heat management systems. These factors ensure that no matter how long you game for, your laptop remains within a certain temperature and does not overheat.

AMD also specifies a certain benchmark of build and design, in a bid to bring out new generation gaming laptop designs. This will allow you to go to the market and come home with slim, ultra-sleek, and practically portable gaming laptops that you can also use for work. Laptops bearing the AMD Advantage™ tag also come with the latest generation Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and ensure that they are ready to be used by professional video game streamers who upload and stream video game content with no lag.

Verdict: The best of every world, at your fingertips

With AMD Advantage™, the gaming experience on laptops is truly elevated to the next level. With machine learning algorithms that can upscale video game content to produce sharper clarity and more vivid colours than ever before, AMD ensures that you can use your gaming laptop for a long time, rather than needing to upgrade it every other year. It also ensures the right amount of performance boosts, handled by intelligent algorithms, to produce the best possible performance and hit the highest benchmark scores.

AMD Advantage™ laptops offer the best heat management technology in the business and new generation designs that blur the boundaries between gaming laptops and ultrabooks in terms of sleekness and portability. This is why you must look for the AMD Advantage™ tag on your next gaming laptop to ensure that you get the best gaming experience on your portable.