Help Me Choose: Graphics Cards for Alienware Laptops

How to get the highest performance
A graphics card is the most important component for demanding applications such as gaming, video editing, 3D modeling, and artificial intelligence. A powerful graphics card will run these applications far faster and with much higher visual quality, which is essential for gamers, creators, students, and power users.
For gamers, running at a high frame rate (“FPS”), provides a much smoother experience and provides a competitive advantage in multiplayer games. Playing new games with realistic graphics or at higher resolutions, requires more graphics processing power. Choosing a more powerful graphics card for your computer will ensure a great experience, not only today but also for years to come.

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™
GeForce RTX™ 30 Series GPUs power the world’s fastest desktops for gamers and creators. They’re built with the award-winning Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture—with new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and streaming multiprocessors to give you the most realistic ray-traced graphics and cutting-edge AI features.
Next-Gen Gaming with RTX
DLSS
NVIDIA DLSS is groundbreaking AI rendering that boosts frame rates with uncompromised image quality using the dedicated AI processing Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX. This gives you the performance headroom to crank up settings and resolutions for an incredible visual experience. The AI revolution has arrived to gaming.
Ray Tracing
Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games.
Max-Q
NVIDIA Max-Q is a suite of technologies powered by AI that optimize laptops to deliver high performance in thin form factors.
AMD Radeon™ 7000M Series Graphics

High Performance Mobile Gaming
The AMD Radeon™ RX 6000M mobile series of graphics bring ultra-high frame rate gaming experiences and advanced content creation features anywhere users need to be. With its striking performance, next-level visuals and efficiency delivered by the latest AMD technology, the AMD Radeon RX 6000M Series is designed for the new generation of advanced gaming and content creation laptops.
RDNA Gaming Architecture
New Levels of Performance
The AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series Graphics for Laptops bring desktop class gaming experiences to mobile platforms with unified AMD RDNA™ 3 Compute Units featuring next generation raytracing accelerators for incredible visuals and blazing fast performance.
Breathtaking Visuals
A pixel perfect experience starts with the Radeon™ RX 7000 Series Graphics for Laptops with a combination of compute-based AMD FidelityFX™ features1 and upscaling technologies, accelerated by dedicated AI and Raytracing hardware to deliver world class visuals with remarkable power efficiency.
Unified Platform Efficiency
The AMD Radeon™ RX 7000 Series Graphics for Laptops graphics fully support the family of exclusive AMD smart technologies, leveraging the synergies of AMD’s CPUs and GPUs to help accelerate the overall platform, improve data transfers, reduce latency in your favorite games, and load levels in the blink of an eye.
Compare Graphics Card Configurations
Model Name | Alienware x14 | Alienware x15 | Alienware x15 R2 | Alienware x17 | Alienware x17 R2 |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
Max Graphics Power | 65W | 90W | 125W | 130W | 140W |
Total Graphics Power | 50W | 70W | 100W | 115W | 115W |
Dynamic Boost | 15W | 20W | 25W | 15W | 25W |
Memory | 4GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 | 6G GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 | 6G GDDR6 |
Base Clock (MHz) | 1177.5 MHz | 1050MHz | 1267 MHz | 1387 MHz | 1387 MHz |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1455 MHz | 1402MHz | 1605 MHz | 1702 MHz | 1702 MHz |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | |
CPU Optimizer | CPU Optimizer | WhisperMode | CPU Optimizer | WhisperMode | |
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | DLSS | WhisperMode | DLSS | |
DLSS | DLSS | Advanced Optimus | DLSS | Advanced Optimus | |
Resizable BAR | Advanced Optimus | Resizable BAR | Advanced Optimus | Resizable BAR | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Resizable BAR | Optimal Playable Settings | Resizable BAR | Optimal Playable Settings | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | ||||
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti | |
Max Graphics Power | 65W | 110W | 140W | 140W | 150W |
Total Graphics Power | 50W | 90W | 115W | 125W | 125W |
Dynamic Boost | 15W | 20W | 25W | 15W | 25W |
Memory | 4GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8G GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8G GDDR6 |
Base Clock (MHz) | 1140MHz | 930MHz | 915 MHz | 1215MHz | 1035 MHz |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1410MHz | 1410MHz | 1410 MHz | 1620MHz | 1485 MHz |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | |
CPU Optimizer | CPU Optimizer | Rapid Core Scaling | CPU Optimizer | Rapid Core Scaling | |
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | |
DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | |
Resizable BAR | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | ||
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti | |
Max Graphics Power | 75W | 110W | 140W | 165W | 175W |
Total Graphics Power | 60W | 90W | 115W | 150W | 150W |
Dynamic Boost | 15W | 20W | 25W | 15W | 25W |
Memory | 6GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 16G GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 16G GDDR6 |
Base Clock (MHz) | 817MHz | 930MHz | 975 MHz | 1350MHz | 1230 MHz |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1282MHz | 1365 MHz | 1410 MHz | 1710MHz | 1590 MHz |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | |
CPU Optimizer | CPU Optimizer | Rapid Core Scaling | CPU Optimizer | Rapid Core Scaling | |
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | |
DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | |
Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | |
Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings |
Alienware m15 R7 | Alienware m15 R7 AMD | Alienware m15 R6 | Alienware m17 R5 | Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 | |
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti | |
Max Graphics Power | 90W | 90W | 95W | 95W | 95W |
Total Graphics Power | 80W | 80W | 80W | 80W | 80W |
Dynamic Boost | 10W | 10W | 10W | 15W | 10W |
Memory | 4GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR6 |
Base Clock (MHz) | 1462.5 MHz | 1462.5 MHz | 1462.5Mhz | 1462.5 MHz | 1462.5MHz |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1695 MHz | 1695 MHz | 1695Mhz | 1695 MHz | 1695MHz |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | |
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | |
DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | |
Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | |
Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 | |
Max Graphics Power | 140W | 140W | 130W | 140W | 130W |
Total Graphics Power | 115W | 115W | 115W | 115W | 115W |
Dynamic Boost | 25W | 25W | 10W | 25W | 10W |
Memory | 1140MHz | 6GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 | 6GB GDDR6 |
Base Clock (MHz) | 1140MHz | 1387 MHz | 1387MHz | 1387 MHz | 1387MHz |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1702 MHz | 1702 MHz | 1702MHz | 1702 MHz | 1702MHz |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | |
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | WhisperMode | |
DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | DLSS | |
Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | |
Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | |
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | |
Max Graphics Power | 150W | 150W | 130W | 150W | 130W |
Total Graphics Power | 125W | 125W | 115W | 125W | 115W |
Dynamic Boost | 25W | 25W | 10W | 25W | 10W |
Memory | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB DDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 |
Base Clock (MHz) | 1035Mhz | 1035Mhz | 1110MHz | 1035Mhz | 1110MHz |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1485Mhz | 1485Mhz | 1560MHz | 1485Mhz | 1560MHz |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | |
Rapid Core Scaling | Rapid Core Scaling | WhisperMode | Rapid Core Scaling | WhisperMode | |
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | DLSS | WhisperMode | DLSS | |
DLSS | DLSS | Advanced Optimus | DLSS | Advanced Optimus | |
Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Resizable BAR | Advanced Optimus | Resizable BAR | |
Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Optimal Playable Settings | Resizable BAR | Optimal Playable Settings | |
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | |||
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti | ||
Max Graphics Power | 140W | 140W | 130W | 155W | |
Total Graphics Power | 125W | 125W | 115W | 140W | |
Dynamic Boost | 15W | 15W | 10W | 15W | |
Memory | 16GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 8GB DDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | |
Base Clock (MHz) | 1080 MHz | 1080 MHz | 1110MHz | 1185 MHz | |
Boost Clock (MHz) | 1455Mhz | 1455Mhz | 1545MHz | 1545Mhz | |
NVIDIA Max-Q Technologies | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | Dynamic Boost | |
Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | Battery Boost | ||
Rapid Core Scaling | Rapid Core Scaling | WhisperMode | Rapid Core Scaling | ||
WhisperMode | WhisperMode | DLSS | WhisperMode | ||
DLSS | DLSS | Advanced Optimus | DLSS | ||
Advanced Optimus | Advanced Optimus | Resizable BAR | Advanced Optimus | ||
Resizable BAR | Resizable BAR | Optimal Playable Settings | Resizable BAR | ||
Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | Optimal Playable Settings | |||
AMD Radeon™ RX 6700M | AMD Radeon™ RX 6850M XT | ||||
GPU Power | Up to 135W | Up to 165W | |||
Game Frequency | 2300 MHz | 2463 MHz | |||
Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |