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Even the best laptops are, traditionally speaking, a lot slower than a full desktop PC
shape of the Asus Zephyrus G14
That laptop is equipped with the Ryzen 9 4900HS, which is the 35W variant of the most powerful laptop chip in the lineup right now
putting it up against the most powerful consumer processors on the market right now from both Intel and AMD
It's definitely not faster than either the Intel Core i9-9900K or the Ryzen 9 3900X, but it comes close enough to definitely be classified
graphs in your face (don't worry, that's coming here in a bit), we want to note that there's a fundamental difference in what's valuable for
The more power you draw from the wall, the more you're typically going to spend on your power bill each month
The difference between a 65W Ryzen 7 3700X and a 95W Core i9-9900K each month will likely be trivial, but there's definitely a difference
One of the major appeals of having a portable device is to, like, be able to carry it around wherever you go, and if your gaming laptop dies
after an hour or two of just browsing the web or watching a movie on the train, what's the point of it even being a laptop?For the longest
time, that's kind of been the compromise you had to make for having a gaming laptop in the first place
laptop that is designed first and foremost for working on the road
is able to dynamically adjust clock speeds depending on the actual workloads being imposed on the laptops
So, if you're just browsing the web or writing up a document in Microsoft Word, clock speeds come down, which also brings down power
was all done in the name of maximizing real-world battery life beyond what people even test for
AMD flew us out to their Austin, Texas campus to do a deep dive into what Ryzen 4000 would be capable of, and in an interview AMD director
of product management Renato Fragale told us that rather than focusing on hard benchmarks, "we need to be looking at, or around, a
conference (even if they've been cancelled for a bit), and Fragale explained to us "if you know you're going to be unplugged for 14 hours,
and you know you've gotta get some work done, you slide [the Windows Power Slider] towards battery life
Because realistically, if you're doing Word or PowerPoint, or whatever, you probably don't need a ton of performance to do that; so let's go
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Ryzen 4000 crushing those benchmarksSo we teased the performance a bit when we noticed earlier that the AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS is faster than
the Intel Core i7-9700K in Cinebench R20
To be fair, this was a claim that AMD made way back when it revealed its lineup back at CES 2020
We tested the Ryzen 9 4900HS against the Intel Core i5-9600K, Core i7-9700K and Core i9-9900K
And, for parity's sake we also tested the AMD Ryzen 5 3600, Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X
points in the Cinebench R20 multi-core test against the Intel Core i7-9700K's 3,726
coming close to the same single-core performance with a 1,170 single-core score
Even in 3DMark, where Intel is historically very strong, the 4900HS beats the 9700K with a CPU score of 8,438 to Team Blue's 8,106.What's
even more impressive, however, is how close the AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS comes to the Intel Core i9-9900K
That's just 13% and 7% faster, respectively, for a processor that consumes more than double the power and is being cooled by a 360mm AIO
of AMD's own desktop processors, namely the Ryzen 7 3700X
AMD's 8-core, 16-thread mainstream desktop processor gets a Cinebench R20 multi-core score of 4,802 and a GeekBench multi-core score of
If you just need something that can handle video editing while traveling, now's the time to pick up that new laptop
Right now Intel has claim to all the shiny flagships on the market right now
however, is that Intel processors are the ones that are getting paired with an RTX 2080 Super to provide high-end gaming or video production
In our Austin interview, AMD Senior Manager of Product Management Scott Stankard told us that "we didn't place a restriction
But in the contest of: we are attacking the market, we are saying that we want to go over double the systems from 2019 to 2020."In short,
AMD wants to make sure it has the bulk of the market covered
And, it's true that when you're out there shopping for a laptop, a high-end device that can cost thousands of dollars is only going to
notebook, it's a collaboration with the OEMs
So the OEM has to look at their portfolio, figure out what they want to go build and how they want to go attack it
So we don't have the full free-rein to say, "we will do this"." AMD can certainly influence laptop manufacturers, but the Asus's and the
processors paired with the best GPUs on the market
We absolutely love the idea of pairing a high-end AMD CPU with the top-end mobile GPU in a gaming laptop that can absolutely destroy games
That day isn't here yet, but as more laptop manufacturers come around to just how good AMD Ryzen 4000 is, and the benefits it provides
The best gaming laptops just got a whole lot better, and if things continue in this direction, we might even start recommending gaming
laptops over an Ultrabook, thanks to the increased performance without having to compromise on battery life
