{"video_id":"Nfz46HXvPLc","title":"AMD is Making Laptops Affordable","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":456,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":6.0,"text":"originally this was going to be a fairly standard overview of the lenovo flex 14","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.76,"end_s":9.36,"text":"two in one sponsored by lenovo thanks by the way and that would have been fine","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.6,"end_s":14.88,"text":"because it's a really decent little piece of kit especially for just 550","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.32,"end_s":19.92,"text":"bucks on amazon but then something unexpected happened our test results","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.88,"end_s":22.48,"text":"came back and the little AMD ryzen","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.92,"end_s":27.84,"text":"processor in this thing absolutely shreds like after the first round 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especially for just 550 bucks on amazon but then something unexpected happened our test results came back and the little AMD ryzen processor in this thing absolutely shreds like after the first round we just assumed that maybe Windows updates were running in the background on our Intel comparison machine or something but no the ryzen 5 3500u looks like it could potentially change the budget thin and light notebook landscape so let's take a look at how it stacks up against its closest rival the Intel core i5 8250u featuring of course the flex 14 two in one from our sponsor lenovo now before you do anything with a flex 14 make sure it's up to date these ryzen mobile processors are still pretty new and the last BIOS and chipset update gave us i kid you not a 100 increase in single threaded performance there seemed to be an issue where the processor wasn't boosting except in multi-threaded tests so unsurprisingly this fix made the flex 14 201 feel way snappier now multi-threaded land is typically where ryzen shines but they usually have the advantage of bringing more cores to the fight at a given price point so we thought that four cores versus 4 cores might not be such an easy victory we were wrong in blender or cinebench the ryzen 5 3500u pulls out a head of the core i5 in every test by over 10 meaning that if you want to get better performance on your thin light machine if you need to use it for photo editing video encoding or rendering here and there you'll be choosing ryzen in cinebench single threaded Intel does put up a better fight hoping dearly that it can still hold on to this crown which it did by a whole one point come on team blue you're gonna have to do better than that and in some cases they actually did in pc mark 10 Intel pulls out their first convincing victory with a 13 higher overall score in our tests which at first might seem like a pretty solid win for team blue given that these are the kinds of tasks that you'll be performing all the time like loading a word document opening a new browser tab or filling out data in excel these are tasks that you really want to feel snappy but the interesting thing is that our Intel CPU reported consuming up to 40 watts of power on occasion while our AMD chip never broke 20. now i don't want to say for sure that this will result in better battery life sometimes getting a task done quickly with a nice jolt of power is more efficient overall than taking longer and using less power but given that the flex 14 21 is rated for eight hours of use on just a 43 watt hour battery it seems like going team red worked out pretty well for them in this design now it's time to test out the integrated GPU the vega 8 graphics processor in our flex 14 21 promises to leave Intel's onboard graphics in the dust to which i will say it darn well better given that it steals two gigs of your system memory well that believe it or not is where yet another team red advantage comes into play lenovo has an Intel version that's similar to this device but at a higher price and with 8 gigs versus 12 gigs of RAM so we actually still come out up on the deal with 10 gigs of usable memory here back to the performance then those 8 graphics cores handle games at well ok it's mostly low settings or maybe medium high if it's an older title so it's not an amazing experience or anything but hey at least there is an experience the 3500u delivers a crushing 40 improvement over the i5 8250 u on the Intel chip you're looking at ultra low to unplayable frame rates for new games maybe low settings for older games and in most situations you're just not gaming so yeah i mean if you plan on primarily gaming the flex 14 two in one probably won't make your short list but if you want something that's super portable and you want to be able to knock out a casual game of rocket league while you're on the go hey at least you've got the option the final knockout punch for the 3500u is actually something i just alluded to the price the flex 14 21 sporting the ryzen 5 3500u is 90 dollars less than the flex 14 two in one with the i5 8250u now of course AMD's dominance in this regard probably won't last forever 10th gen Intel chips are making their way to the market and they do look rather promising with a big boost especially in graphics performance but for the time being they've mostly been featured in high-end notebooks so in the here and now then what the 3500u and the flex 14 2-1 with it bring to the table that is so special is that they hit that magical point of good enough performance for most people at a price point that would have been difficult or impossible to hit before without a deep discount or buying something second hand which i guess brings us nicely to the flex 14 two-in-one a laptop that perfectly hits good enough want a super stiff magnesium chassis well you can get a thinkpad for that but the plastic chassis on the flex still has a solid feel to it that i can respect as for i o with AMD and at this price point you're not getting any fancy Thunderbolt 3 ports to plug all your daisy change dongles into but it's good enough that that shouldn't matter two usba's a type-c full-size HDMI along with headphones and an sd card reader is about all you can expect in a thin and light these days but one annoyance here is that when you store the included pen it does make both of your type-a ports inaccessible and it makes the power button hard to press but okay glass half full here at least you're getting a pen included unlike on the Intel model and it's pretty decent too you can flip the flex 14 two and one over into tablet mode for a pretty good note-taking experience or you can throw it into tent mode for marking up some changes in a powerpoint or peck even doing some light photo editing i wouldn't trust this panel to do color critical work but it's 1080p ips with touch so it hits that good enough mark and that's something that only hit even the thousand dollar price point a couple of years ago there are also a number of nice to have features like the privacy shutter to easily disable the webcam and quick charge so you can get 80 of your battery in just an hour so overall then thank you AMD Intel has been quite good actually at advancing the laptop market forward in the high-end segment these last couple of years but it's really nice to see the budget segment finally getting some real love too and again thanks to lenovo for sponsoring this video and providing their flex 14 two and one for our mobile lightweight showdown today so thanks for watching guys hope you enjoyed this video you thought i wasn't gonna do it didn't you lttstore.com"}