The VRAM configurations of the mobile Radeon RX 8000 are becoming clearer

The RX 8000 desktop and laptop for 2025

If you follow the graphics card market at all, you know that in terms of timing, the Radeon RX 8000 and GeForce RTX 50 Series will break with the tradition of recent generations. For these, AMD and NVIDIA first launched desktop graphics cards in the fall or early winter, then the laptop variants at the start of the following year, during CES.

For future references, the two companies have not yet introduced desktop models; barring a huge surprise, they will not do so before early 2025. At AMD, Lisa Su herself confirmed that the RDNA 4 graphics cards would be released in early 2025 and that they would focus on ray tracing and AI. So it’s very likely that we’ll have both desktop and laptop Radeons next January. It is the latter that will be discussed in this article, with first specifications for the Radeon RX 8000 range of mobile GPUs.

These have been revealed by a reputable source namely Golden Pig Upgrade. According to leaker information, AMD is preparing at least four RDNA 4 mobile SKUs.

GPU RDNA 4 laptop © Golden Pig Upgrade Pack (via Bilibili)

The exact GPU configurations remain unknown, but here is the revealed data:

R25M-E6 (Navi 48 ?) – 16 Go / 256 bits / TGP from 80 to 175W
R25M-E4 (Navi 48 ?) – 12 GB / 192 bits / TGP from 80 to 175W
R25M-P6 (Navi 44 ?) – 8 GB / 128 bit / TGP from 75 to 150 W
R25M-P4 (Ships 44 ?) – 8 Go / 128 bits / TGP of 50 to 130 W

Towards a less uniform RX 8000 range?

We would stick with fairly standard VRAM configurations for this type of product, but still a departure from the current RDNA 3 laptop range. To refresh your memory, AMD was content with several versions of Radeon RX 7600 / RX 7700S introduced in early 2023; all have 8 GB of dedicated video memory.

The company subsequently reinforced this contingent with the Radeon RX 7900M equipped with 16 GB of VRAM, but this standard bearer remained very confidential and its availability very limited. In short, there is no point in nitpicking or making GPU-fiction, basically, the current generation is built around the hard core of the four 8 GB models (for the sake of detail, let us point out that there is also a Radeon RX 7800M with 12 GB of VRAM, but exclusively available in eGPU to our knowledge).

The table published by Golden Pig does not indicate the type of GDDR, but in principle it will be GDDR6 with modules set to 18, 19 or 20 Gbit/s, GDDR7 not being, until proven otherwise, by on the program at AMD for this generation. Finally, you will have noted the mention of a refresh based on an RDNA 3 GPU, in this case the Navi 33.