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i only got a day's notice that the ASUS zephyrus g14 would be arriving with

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AMD's new ryzen 9 4900 hs an eight core

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processor for thin and light gaming laptops that consumes just 35 watts now

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that wouldn't be a problem except that the only comparable a core Intel laptop

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that i had on hand uses the core i9 9880

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hk their flagship mobile processor that

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draws watts boosts to 5 gigahertz and only

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exists in much thicker not to mention heavier designs for funsies though i

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decided you know what let's fire up cinebench r20 on both of them anyway and

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see what happens i was fully expecting the AMD processor to get destroyed and

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our video to be delayed until we had a fair comparison except that that's not

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how things went down the ryzen 9

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hs killed the i9 9880hk delivering

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nearly a quarter more performance and i was worried maybe Windows update or

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something was running in the background on the Intel machine so i ran the test a

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couple more times but the results stayed the same

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AMD just chokesland the fastest mobile

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processor on the market of course though

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there's more to life than just cinebench and i need to see if it can dominate

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elsewhere thermal grizzlies conduct not liquid metal thermal interface material offers

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maximum cooling performance check it out and keep things cool at the link below

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thing is the zenbook pro duo is a powerful machine but it was designed

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more for creative professionals so our

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next sanity check then was to grab a different 8-core laptop

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meet the acer helio 700 the epitome of mobile

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xs now it technically uses the same core i9

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9880hk but this is on a different level like

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check this out when you are ready to game you actually move the entire

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keyboard down and press the turbo button

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revealing these two huge fans that can suck in enough air to allow the

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processor to draw up to

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120 watts

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surely the puny zephyrus will be absolutely crushed by this no

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compromises gaming beast right

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let me put it this way if i'm working at Intel

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i'm gonna probably need a new pair of boxers in a sec lttstore.com by the way

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because dang two acer's credit at least the 4900 hs

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had to kind of work for it this time and besides we're all getting kind of tired

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of watching AMD kick ass at multi-threaded applications let's talk

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about single threat

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oh even with acer's overclock locking the

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i9 9880 hk at a ripping 5 gigahertz

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which is unsustainable in basically any other design and barely even a laptop at

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this point from test to test it was a toss-up whether the r9 or the i9 would

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win and for the rest of our testing the results remained about the same the

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zephyrus g14 crushed the zenbook pro and

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matched or edged ahead of the helio 700

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and guys the emphasis here needs to be on how crazy it is that this small

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laptop was able to hang with this one

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bear in mind of course this has more powerful graphics for games now during

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our blender bmw CPU render the ryzen 9 4900 hs in the zephyrus g14 reached a

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maximum temperature of 91.8 degrees which is toasty but not throttling and

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it drew a reported average of about 50 watts

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by comparison our 9880 hk and the helio 700 hit 96 degrees and reported drawing

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about 90 watts think about that the Intel chip needed 40 more watts of power

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and the winds of boreas just to match AMD in performance

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bringing us to an interesting question though how on earth is the ryzen 9 4900

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hs which i never saw break 4.4 gigahertz

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matching or even beating a 5 gigahertz

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Intel chip well we've talked about this before but ryzen 4000 series uses AMD's

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zen 2 architecture which boasts about a 15 increase in ipc or instructions per

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cycle over last gen more ipc basically means that more work

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can be done at a given clock speed so with some simple napkin math

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oh wow that's a fancy napkin 4.4 times

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1.15 gives us 5.06 the excellent single

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threaded performance means then that the zephyrus g14 not only kicks ass for

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productivity but it also tears through games ours is equipped with an NVIDIA

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rtx 2060 max q and guys all i can say is who says green and

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red don't go well together this combo made short work of the full power rtx

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2060 in the zenbook pro duo now that

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my kind of christmas but there's always a catch right one of

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my favorite lines to repeat in gaming laptop videos is with great power comes

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great power consumption at which point we all

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have a good laugh about the two to three hours of battery life in gaming machines

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or less than an hour if you have the audacity to actually game on them

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stop not with the zephyrus g14

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now given the 76 watt hour battery eight core processor and 120 hertz display i

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would have wagered something like five hours of battery life if i was feeling

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optimistic but it got 10. now that is just for light office

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work with the brightness turned down and the keyboard backlight off but to put it

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in perspective the freaking dell xps 13

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2 and 1 got half an hour less than that running the same test this all means

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then that AMD has gifted the world a processor as powerful as Intel's core i9

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9880 hk but that can be integrated in a design that's just 20 millimeters thick

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and sips power like a 25 watt quad core

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when you're just browsing the web which brings us to AMD's largest mobile hurdle

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so far oem support a powerful and

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efficient processor is nothing if it gets relegated to b-tier designs so

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let's change gears and focus on the zephyrus g14 itself for a little bit the

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build quality is excellent not quite up there with a razer blade 15 or alienware

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m15 with a bit more visible plastic and

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some of the most uneven keyboard backlighting that i've seen in quite a

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while but it avoids any egregious gamer

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styling it's not super flexy and i'd give it

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easily an a minus the i o is also solid with my only complaint being that the

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type a ports are in a pretty rough spot if you want to plug a mouse in

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aside from the light piping the keyboard is excellent though which is kind of

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funny because a stiff top of the stroke with a long travel sounds like it's

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going to end up mushy but ends up feeling more like

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like stealthy it's really quiet and the standard layout and great key feel makes

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it almost immediately blend into the background while my work or my game can

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take center stage the pad is then more of the same besides being slightly on

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the small side it just does its job so you can do your job

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that is as long as your job doesn't involve working from home now we had no

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way of knowing that the kovid 19 pandemic was coming

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or that it would have this kind of an impact but we still get to say

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i told you so ASUS stop stripping webcams off your laptops something is

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still better than no thing when i need to jump on a video call with someone at

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the last second and i'm scrambling and no webcam also means no Windows hello

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facial recognition now the power button is a fingerprint

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reader that caches your authentication temporarily then logs you in once the

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Windows lock screen comes up so at least you don't have to touch it twice

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which is okay or at least it would be if it worked more consistently we got about

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15 success on it so some driver improvements needed there rounding out

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the experience the display is another strong area though with both a fast 120

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hertz refresh rate and factory calibrated colors and the final nice

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touch is an Intel wi-fi 6 card that's great to see because that's definitely

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one area of mobile computing where team blue still gets a big fat w the version

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with the rtx 2060 max q starts at 1449.99 and at that price i can

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wholeheartedly recommend the zephyrus g14 as a do it all laptop gaming school

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work i don't remember a device like this as a whole package

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that represented so few compromises for so few people

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in quite some time i think it's fair to

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say that this not this laptop specifically but this process this

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mobile launch could be AMD's most important launch if not ever than at

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least in the last 10 years now i get that our audience guys you guys are

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super into diy pcs but laptop sales are

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more than double desktop sales like think about it at shows like ces

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manufacturers like dell and lenovo individually have a bigger presence than

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all of AMD and until now nearly every

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single laptop they've sold has contained an Intel processor that

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is finally about to change which is going to put yet another big revenue

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boost into AMD's coffers to keep r d up

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and keep the pressure on Intel we can't pronounce AMD the king of the mobile CPU

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market yet word on the street is that Intel isn't going to just take this

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lying down but what we can say is that

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as it did in desktops workstations and

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servers zen 2 has brought competition back

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to mobile was there ever competition in high-end

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