Why are some laptop manufacturers not providing RTX 5090 GPU option with this year's AMD CPUs?

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After all the CES reveals, I happened to notice that Lenovo and Asus are providing the RTX 5090 option only on their top-end laptops with the Intel HX chips, and not AMD ones, like the Legion Pro 7i, Rog Strix/Scar/Zephyrus.

I only saw it on a handful of laptops like the MSI Raider.

Does this mean that this year we are not going to see the 9950X3D with the RTX 5090?

(Lenovo, Asus are the only two manufacturers with proper support in my country outside of Apple, so I haven’t checked the others yet)

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Curious of this as well, and kind of makes the upgrade path a bit blurry.

Hopefully more options come out with the 9950hx3D over the next few months, may have to hold out till the 2026 refresh though.

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Kasey said:

It’s basically this. People can bash the manufacturers all they want but if AMD doesn’t want to cooperate then there’s little these OEMs can do. Intel is seen as the safer option, whether that is cos of their history as being the dominant force in laptops or cos AMD focuses more on the desktop side.

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Kasey said:

AMD is the enemy of itself, it finds a way to screw it up even if it got some best technology.

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Have you not checked MSI?

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Skylar said:
Have you not checked MSI?

I did mention MSI Raider in my post, but MSI support isn’t that great in my country

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Blaze said:

Skylar said:
Have you not checked MSI?

I did mention MSI Raider in my post, but MSI support isn’t that great in my country

Should have worded it as are we going to see the X3D chip paired with the 5090 in any other laptops

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Blaze said:

Skylar said:
Have you not checked MSI?

I did mention MSI Raider in my post, but MSI support isn’t that great in my country

Oh didn’t see that.

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Blaze said:

Skylar said:
Have you not checked MSI?

I did mention MSI Raider in my post, but MSI support isn’t that great in my country

Raider has the X3D chip paired with the 5090

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Scout said:
This reply from XMG might be of interest

No built in USB 4 is hella wild. I tend to prefer AMD over Intel but the latter seems to be better in terms of features for laptops

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@Vann
Because dragon range and fire range are desktop chips. AMD desktop chips are very DIY PC enthusiast oriented.

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Intel does shady stuff to not have AMD to be paired with 5090. They probably discounted their chips or gave then some under the table gifts (stocks).

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Asher said:
Intel does shady stuff to not have AMD to be paired with 5090. They probably discounted their chips or gave then some under the table gifts (stocks).

Once intel gave DELL some bribes to use their chips.

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Intel paid them to not use AMD chips on some configurations.

You want a sexy and portable Zephyrus G16? Go with an AMD CPU and be limited to a 5070 with a pathetic 8GB of VRAM, or go with an inferior Intel CPU and up to a 5090.

You want the fastest gaming laptop? AMD 9955HX3D, check. RTX 5090, nope. You have to get an intel CPU if you want a 5090.

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@Addison
G14 with AMD and 5070ti seems like the way to go

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Seriously, all the manufacturers that have this combo are notoriously overpriced. I was hoping to be able to pick one with the best price.

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All I want is an 18-inch laptop with an OLED screen paired with 5090 and AMD HX3D

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Linus had a section where he touched on this, too, pointing out that the only ASUS laptop with a mobile X3D chip was only a board x (I can’t remember if board 1 or 2 supports > 5070) motherboard so won’t be able to support more than a 5070.

He went over the 4 things (I think) that determine what GPU is supported.

Board number/type (<= 5070 or > 5070)
Power delivery
Cooling
I can’t remember the other.

Yeah, sorry, I’m not much help, but maybe his video will help you more.

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There were times when Intel bribed DELL to use their chips and not to use AMD ones.

Intel also provide funds for R&D for laptops. Nvidia also funds some top-tier games to make them as first priority.

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I love Intel and wanted them to come back to the throne, but at present AMD X3D is the king of gaming. And I want to see it in all top-spec laptops paired with 5090.