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watts surely the puny zephyrus will be absolutely crushed by this no compromises gaming beast right let me put it this way if i'm working at Intel i'm gonna probably need a new pair of boxers in a sec lttstore.com by the way because dang two acer's credit at least the 4900 hs had to kind of work for it this time and besides we're all getting kind of tired of watching AMD kick ass at multi-threaded applications let's talk about single threat oh even with acer's overclock locking the i9 9880 hk at a ripping 5 gigahertz which is unsustainable in basically any other design and barely even a laptop at this point from test to test it was a toss-up whether the r9 or the i9 would win and for the rest of our testing the results remained about the same the zephyrus g14 crushed the zenbook pro and matched or edged ahead of the helio 700 and guys the emphasis here needs to be on how crazy it is that this small laptop was able to hang with this one bear in mind of course this has more powerful graphics for games now during our blender bmw CPU render the ryzen 9 4900 hs in the zephyrus g14 reached a maximum temperature of 91.8 degrees which is toasty but not throttling and it drew a reported average of about 50 watts by comparison our 9880 hk and the helio 700 hit 96 degrees and reported drawing about 90 watts think about that the Intel chip needed 40 more watts of power and the winds of boreas just to match AMD in performance bringing us to an interesting question though how on earth is the ryzen 9 4900 hs which i never saw break 4.4 gigahertz matching or even beating a 5 gigahertz Intel chip well we've talked about this before but ryzen 4000 series uses AMD's zen 2 architecture which boasts about a 15 increase in ipc or instructions per cycle over last gen more ipc basically means that more work can be done at a given clock speed so with some simple napkin math oh wow that's a fancy napkin 4.4 times 1.15 gives us 5.06 the excellent single threaded performance means then that the zephyrus g14 not only kicks ass for productivity but it also tears through games ours is equipped with an NVIDIA rtx 2060 max q and guys all i can say is who says green and red don't go well together this combo made short work of the full power rtx 2060 in the zenbook pro duo now that my kind of christmas but there's always a catch right one of my favorite lines to repeat in gaming laptop videos is with great power comes great power consumption at which point we all have a good laugh about the two to three hours of battery life in gaming machines or less than an hour if you have the audacity to actually game on them stop not with the zephyrus g14 now given the 76 watt hour battery eight core processor and 120 hertz display i would have wagered something like five hours of battery life if i was feeling optimistic but it got 10. now that is just for light office work with the brightness turned down and the keyboard backlight off but to put it in perspective the freaking dell xps 13 2 and 1 got half an hour less than that running the same test this all means then that AMD has gifted the world a processor as powerful as Intel's core i9 9880 hk but that can be integrated in a design that's just 20 millimeters thick and sips power like a 25 watt quad core when you're just browsing the web which brings us to AMD's largest mobile hurdle so far oem support a powerful and efficient processor is nothing if it gets relegated to b-tier designs so let's change gears and focus on the zephyrus g14 itself for a little bit the build quality is excellent not quite up there with a razer blade 15 or alienware m15 with a bit more visible plastic and some of the most uneven keyboard backlighting that i've seen in quite a while but it avoids any egregious gamer styling it's not super flexy and i'd give it easily an a minus the i o is also solid with my only complaint being that the type a ports are in a pretty rough spot if you want to plug a mouse in aside from the light piping the keyboard is excellent though which is kind of funny because a stiff top of the stroke with a long travel sounds like it's going to end up mushy but ends up feeling more like like stealthy it's really quiet and the standard layout and great key feel makes it almost immediately blend into the background while my work or my game can take center stage the pad is then more of the same besides being slightly on the small side it just does its job so you can do your job that is as long as your job doesn't involve working from home now we had no way of knowing that the kovid 19 pandemic was coming or that it would have this kind of an impact but we still get to say i told you so ASUS stop stripping webcams off your laptops something is still better than no thing when i need to jump on a video call with someone at the last second and i'm scrambling and no webcam also means no Windows hello facial recognition now the power button is a fingerprint reader that caches your authentication temporarily then logs you in once the Windows lock screen comes up so at least you don't have to touch it twice which is okay or at least it would be if it worked more consistently we got about 15 success on it so some driver improvements needed there rounding out the experience the display is another strong area though with both a fast 120 hertz refresh rate and factory calibrated colors and the final nice touch is an Intel wi-fi 6 card that's great to see because that's definitely one area of mobile computing where team blue still gets a big fat w the version with the rtx 2060 max q starts at 1449.99 and at that price i can wholeheartedly recommend the zephyrus g14 as a do it all laptop gaming school work i don't remember a device like this as a whole package that represented so few compromises for so few people in quite some time i think it's fair to say that this not this laptop specifically but this process this mobile launch could be AMD's most important launch if not ever than at least in the last 10 years now i get that our audience guys you guys are super into diy pcs but laptop sales are more than double desktop sales like think about it at shows like ces manufacturers like dell and lenovo individually have a bigger presence than all of AMD and until now nearly every single laptop they've sold has contained an Intel processor that is finally about to change which is going to put yet another big revenue boost into AMD's coffers to keep r d up and keep the pressure on Intel we can't pronounce AMD the king of the mobile CPU market yet word on the street is that Intel isn't going to just take this lying down but what we can say is that as it did in desktops workstations and servers zen 2 has brought competition back to mobile was there ever competition in high-end mobile no not really oh um how about has there been a segue to our sponsor not a good one private internet access it won't protect your credit cards or passwords or identity it's just a tool that 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