AMD: Ryzen 4000 laptops with RTX 2070 video card or faster are not coming for the time being

There will be no gaming laptops that combine a Ryzen 4000 processor with an RTX 2070 video card or higher in the short term. AMD confirms that, but it is not known why. Ryzen 4000 laptops that have been announced will have up to an RTX 2060 GPU.

Frank Azor, who has been with AMD since last year as Chief Architect of Gaming Solutions, reports on Twitter that more laptops with Ryzen 4000 processors will appear soon, but also says that for the time being there are no models with Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 2070 video card or faster. His answer implies that this may be the case later, but when is not known.

Nvidia announced a refresh of its RTX video cards for laptops in early April. Intel unveiled its Comet Lake-H laptop processors on the same day. Many laptop manufacturers announced models with the new Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs that same day. All Nvidia GPUs are available with Intel laptops, from the GTX 1650 up to the RTX 2080.

It’s not clear why laptops with Ryzen 4000 processors and faster Nvidia video cards aren’t appearing. The new Ryzen CPUs are fast, but gaming laptops are now limited by the available GPUs. Asus, for example, released the Zephyrus G14 and G15, which combine Ryzen 4000 CPUs with the RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 Ti. Those laptops perform in games equivalent to alternatives with Intel processors with the same GPUs; but game laptops with Intel processors and faster GPUs such as the RTX 2070 and 2080 logically do better in games.

AMD itself does not have laptop GPUs that can keep up with the fastest video cards from Nvidia. At the beginning of this year, AMD did introduce the RX 5700M and 5600M, which are expected to offer performance comparable to Nvidia’s RTX 2060, but laptops with those GPUs have not yet appeared. Azor says that they will come out soon and states that there are delays due to the corona crisis.