Alienwares M17 R5 Ryzen Edition is going whole hog on AMD

One of Alienware’s coolest CES 2022 announcements is the 17-inch M17 R5 Ryzen Edition. It looks a lot like the previous iteration, but inside of its chassis, it’s an AMD Advantage machine, kind of like this Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage. What that means in Alienware’s case is it’s a showcase for AMD’s new Ryzen 7 and 9 6000-series processors, the Radeon RX 6850M XT graphics chip, as well as a few features enabled by all of that AMD synergy.

This model supports AMD SmartShift Max, SmartAccess Memory, and SmartAccess Graphics is making its debut on this machine. The simple version of what SmartShift translates to is each of the laptop’s components can work together to deliver a fast experience or at least something greater than the sum of...

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