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I don't think I've ever seen this before AMD is launching a new series of mobile

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CPUs and the laptop they sent over is fine except that it's limited to about

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half of the power of all these competing devices when you limit power you limit

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performance and who in their right mind

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would possibly want to Great Scott it

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wins anyway that's right folks it turns out

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ryzen AI 300 is so good that AMD took

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the performance Crown anyway not only that but with a claimed 32% increase in

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performance per watt AMD is set to absolutely Crush their longtime x86

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competitor when it comes to efficiency as well of course though x86 is no

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longer the only daxon in the wiener dog race a month ago qualcom came out of

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absolutely nowhere and absolutely embarrassed the rest of the industry

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with their onew punch of great battery life and performance is ryzen AI 300

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enough to fend off the impending ARM Invasion and can I fend off this

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invasion of Segways to our

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link below in front of me is the new ASUS Zenbook s16 powered by the brand

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new dear Lord AMD ryzen AI 9hx

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370 I'm sorry guys I mean the chip is

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really good but this has to be the worst naming scheme that we've seen in years

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and this is right after we just made an entire video about how AMD is

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intentionally using their naming schemes to mislead their customers almost

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everything else about it is great though it's built on tsmc's near Cutting Edge 4

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NM node and we get an extra four cores

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compared to last gen and while the base frequency is just 2 GHz this little 12

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core 24 thread monster can boost up to 5.1 GHz if the power and thermals of

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your laptop allow it I bring up power limits here because if you look in front

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of me we've got a MacBook Pro and also three ASUS Vivo books featuring the same

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50 W TDP but with three different

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processors now the plan was for us to also get a Vivo book with the ryzen AI

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300 but we didn't so our ryzen AI is

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running at just 28 Watts so much for our

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Apples to Apples Showdown and almost this entire review but then we were like

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okay I mean we know this isn't a fair comparison but why don't we try it

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anyway and how could this possibly

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happen our ryzen AI 300 easily beats its

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last generation x86 competitors and while Qualcomm appears to still be in

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the lead here you got to remember that Snapdragon chip is running at 50 watts

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to see how much that difference was impacting our test we got our hands on a

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Dell XPS 13 that also has a 28 watt TDP

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and would you look at that when matched

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for power these two CPUs are darn near matched for performance as well AMD

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takes a slight lead in multicore while Qualcomm edges them out in single core

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but neither of these differences are the kind that you would notice in Daily

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usage the same can't be said about Apple however whose last gen M3 still manages

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to Gap everyone in single core performance I'm really looking forward

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to M4 now keeping in mind the power disparity AMD takes a win in av1

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encoding while Qualcomm edges the mountain x264 in Photoshop AMD once

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again beats out everyone on Windows only to be promptly put in their place by

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Apple and Adobe premere Pro is a similar story just with some of the pages ripped

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out of the book because our Qualcomm device simply wouldn't open the program

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helping to make AMD's case that emulation is still no substitute for

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Native x86 Hardware of course these are laptop CPUs so for many of you heavy

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workloads are irrelevant and all that really matters is battery life

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and hot Smokies as AMD ever improved

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here too our Zenbook lasted over 11 hours away from a plug now this isn't a

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perfect test the Zenbook has a bit more raw battery capacity than the Vivo book

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and the screen isn't the same either but those small differences cannot account

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for the incredible 3our Improvement that we see over the last generation it

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doesn't quite close the gap with Qualcomm but it puts AMD in the same

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ballpark as Apple for the first time since the M1 and AMD has a very

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compelling reason why you might Overlook any small deficiencies here and it's

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gaming AMD was already in the lead for integrated graphics and I'm talking Rob

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performance features driver support it's been a one wiener race effectively but

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that doesn't mean they can afford to get complacent and they haven't in ryzen AI

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300 we get their new rdna 3.5 architecture which takes AMD from

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winning gaming to absolutely dominating

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it I mean even when our Qualcomm system can launch the game which is about half

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the time based on our recent test stream AMD offers up a difference in animation

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smoothness and in graphical Fidelity that will be obvious to BAS basically

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anyone there is an elephant in the room though a boring boring elephant you

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probably noticed that the ryzen 300 name has AI shoehorned right in the middle of

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it so how is it at AI well AMD is very

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proud that their new npu or neural processing unit has a whopping 50 tops

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that are dedicated to AI acceleration which beats qualcomm's 45

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tops neat so to test it we fired up UL

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prion and it didn't work so we opened up

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one of Microsoft's new co-pilot plus programs and but those aren't supported

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yet either no but don't worry according to AMD's notes ryzen AI processors work

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great in the programs you use every day like amuse hugging face and

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agentic sorry now to be clear the inclusion of

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an npu is appreciated and programs that

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you've heard of will surely take advantage of it someday it's just that

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including it right in the middle of the product name makes it seem more

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important than it is right now when it isn't even compatible enough for us to

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test it and I hope that this is a trend that stops dead I mean they didn't call

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the last gen ryzen av1 decode 6000

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series and we didn't call this shirt screwdriver 40% polyester now available

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on LTT Store.com sorry I got going on naming again didn't I I shouldn't

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because there are other problems too and arguably bigger ones out of the gate

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ryzen AI 300 has no support for so dim

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memory that means that not only is there no way to upgrade the RAM on this laptop

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there is no way for any laptop manufacturer like framework investment

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disclosure to design a ryzen AI 300

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laptop that can be upgraded it is

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possible that they will change this in the future and I really hope they do

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because I believe it would be an excellent selling point for the platform

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currently qualcomm's chips have zero sodium support and rumors suggest that

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Intel's upcoming lunar Lake will be the same meaning you have to pay upfront

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from all three major processor vendors

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for all of the memory that you plan to need laptop manufacturers love this kind

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of thing but it sucks skunk juice for

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consumers another thing that sucks on ryzen AI 300 is Wi-Fi AMD unfortunately

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has partnered with mediatech who exclusively provides Wireless chipsets

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for their devices and from our experience lately they just kind of suck

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multiple members of our team including me have used AMD laptops for work over

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the last couple of years and all of them have noticed problems with Wi-Fi

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dropouts reconnection issues and just general flakiness this sort of thing is

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hard to quantify so the best we could come up with to put a number to it is we

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tested how long it takes for each of our devices to reconnect to the same Wi-Fi

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access point and it turns out the AMD machines took a solid 2 seconds longer

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than Intel and Qualcomm which doesn't sound like a whole lot but it's just

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meant to be illustrative of how it's not quite as good of an experience and from

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what I've seen that 2 seconds is far from the worst you might encounter

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another thing that might or might not matter to you is webcam quality AMD is

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doing okay here but they are probably a

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couple of generations away from snapd Dragon's Superior image signal

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processing all of which is pretty minor though compared to our last big drawback

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naming again and I'm going somewhere with this right now there are only two

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SKS in the ryzen AI 300 series which get 12 and 10 cores respectively but in the

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past this would have been as many as six SKS with a u suffix for low power HS for

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middle of the road and HX for allout

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performance this told to At a Glance roughly what class of laptop you were

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looking at well not anymore now a single

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processor can be anywhere from 15 to 54

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watts of power so unless laptop makers start publishing the power limits of the

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CPUs in their designs your friend's laptop could have access to literally

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3.6 times the power of yours despite

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both having the exact same

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name I mean we were very impressed by

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the capabilities of our power limited chip enough so that we were comfortable

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reviewing it against higher power chips and it still did great but we feel this

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practice is unnecessarily misleading and is an ugly stain on what should

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otherwise have been a total Victory lap of a launch for AMD and there's one last

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catch the price we weren't able to find

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any perfect Apples to Apples comparisons on price but it seems like laptops with

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AMD's l latest and greatest are going to come with roughly a $100 premium over

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the last gen and you can see that for yourself at the links down below this

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certainly raises some questions about value for AMD with that said though

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until Intel actually ships lunar Lake AMD is the only choice for laptops with

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a proper GPU completely eliminating qualcom from the discussion if you need

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real performance on the go at least on Windows otherwise MacBooks are still

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really good if you don't game little off

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