i have got not one but two of the same laptop here on the table
it all comes down to this Intel
versus AMD comparing them in laptops has become
practically impossible over the last couple of years because nobody makes an
identical machine where only the CPU is
different excuse me did i say nobody
the xmg core 15 claims to give
absolutely equal treatment to both sides
so then with everything else the same who will be victorious
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with the notable exception of the motherboard chipset and storage don't
worry we'll get to that every other part of these two systems is exactly alike
same rtx 3060 GPU same 62 watt hour
battery and same 1920 by 1080 165 hertz
ips display this gives us something that is really rare for mobile devices an
opportunity to run a truly apples to apples comparison between teen blue and
team red cpus and not just in terms of
CPU performance benchmarks that would make my job easy but it wouldn't give us
the full picture so on your right Intel inside the brand spanking new core i7
11800h weighing in at 21.88 us dollars
and on your left is AMD's mobile bread and butter the ryzen 7 5800h and right
out of the gate AMD's 5800h is showing a big part of what's made it such an
enthusiast darling even though it also has 8 cores and 16 threads and boosts
just 0.2 gigahertz lower it ends up priced almost 100 us dollars below its
Intel competition but there is more here than meets the
eye take the exterior for instance we have
definitely got the same chassis and therefore the same port arrangement but
that doesn't mean the i o is exactly the same
this is a usb type-c port this is a Thunderbolt 4 port a feature
that ranks pretty high on my list of nice to haves in a laptop especially at
this kind of price now to be clear usb-c can be used as a
single cable docking solution running your display network and peripherals not
to mention power but Thunderbolt just plain does it better with more bandwidth
for displays and storage daisy chain support and compatibility of course with
pesky Thunderbolt only peripherals now Thunderbolt is an Intel technology
so while some desktop AMD motherboards do have it courtesy of an onboard Intel
chip it hasn't shown up in any AMD laptops as far as i'm aware but that
should change with rumors indicating that Thunderbolt compatibility will show
up in the form of usb4 ports on ryzen 6000 series chips codename warhol in
2022-ish but enough about that let's talk performance
surprisingly Intel won the vast majority
of our tests blender classroom runs saw anywhere between 8 and 30 seconds of
improvement on repeat tests 3d mark reported a 4.1 percent CPU score
improvement in time spy it was more of the same when it came to gaming the 11
808 showed a mild lead across the board shadow of the tomb raider rainbow six
siege and f1 2020 all with improvements of up to 15
over AMD but there's a catch power it's hard to say
exactly which factors contribute the most here but in spite of both cpus
having default tdps of 45 watts our
ryzen CPU settled in at around 60 watts
with our Intel chip self-reporting power consumption as high as 100 watts and
settling in around 80 watts during extended workloads
wow i mean on the desktop 20 watts is like
having some more RGB in your case but on mobile pc mark's modern office battery
test gave AMD a 31 edge over Intel at
the same screen brightness that's a big deal ask any ev owner how
they'd feel about thirty percent more range versus an extra five to fifteen
percent more power they're going to take the thirty percent every time
but Intel's heavier power draw comes from more than just turboing up their
cores so aggressively the core i7 11800h
has support for pci express gen 4 which
might feel a bit overkill for a laptop
but it gives manufacturers an opportunity to nearly double the
sequential read and write performance of their system drive for just the 60
difference between a samsung 980 pro and the 970 evo plus that xpg paired with
AMD's ryzen 7 5800h now sequential io
isn't the be-all and end-all in pc mark's storage test the gap does begin
to narrow and we even found when we ran a test a little over a year ago that no
one on our team could tell the difference between a low end and a high-end SSD doing everyday things like
loading games and editing 4k videos so
outside of some very specific workloads like frequent large data ingests or big
number crunching i suspect most of you won't be able to tell
but that pci express advantage extends past
the storage to the GPU as well and while
these rtx 3060s are capable of running pci express gen 4 with up to 16 lanes
which our Intel system is fully utilizing thanks to its four additional
PCIe lanes our AMD system is connected
at just one quarter that speed with only
8 gen 3 lanes but then
we did already talk about gaming performance didn't we and we know then
that AMD's compromises here appear to have been wise ones at least that's true
on a machine running an rtx 3060 rather than a 37d or a 3080. boiling it all
down then the Intel machine wins on performance and the AMD machine wins on
battery life so what do you choose
well what i i can't i can't tell you i already gave you all the numbers and i
explained why they're such from here it's your call if you've got the extra
benjamin to spend and you want balls for the wall performance the Intel version
of the core 15 looks great it's got Thunderbolt pci express gen 4 storage
however small the benefit might be and you might have an easier time sourcing
it at the moment but if battery life is what you're after then
i'd take the AMD if you're wondering why AMD laptops tend to be a better value i
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thanks for watching bio actually hold on if you're looking for another video to
watch check out the recent one on how laptop manufacturers are slowing down
your pc by using higher density RAM it
makes even more of a difference than AMD versus Intel which is a little awkward