5 reasons to choose an AMD laptop
Devices / / January 06, 2021
For a long time, AMD processors remained in the shadow of Intel solutions. The Reds lagged especially strongly in the notebook segment, where architectural flaws were exacerbated by power and cooling constraints. However, over the past three years, the situation has changed: AMD is already pressingAMD vs Intel Market Share Intel in desktop PCs, now it is the turn of laptops. This is why it happens.
1. New AMD processors are incredibly powerful
With the launch of the Ryzen 4000 line, the Reds have knocked the ground out of the competition. The increase in performance was so significant that the average Ryzen 4500u model in the lineAMD Ryzen 5 4500U almost on par with the flagship Intel Core i7-1065G7Intel Core i7‑1065G7 in many synthetic tests.
If we go up the price segment, then the flagship Ryzen 4800uAMD Ryzen 7 4800U demonstrates results at the level of Core i7‑10750HIntel Core i7‑10750H. At the same time, AMD with a thermal package (TDP) of 15 W is designed for light laptops, and Intel with 45 W is for productive models with powerful cooling.
It turns out that in a number of tasks AMD-based laptops can compete with Intel solutions, the price of which is several times higher. But that's not all: the mobile Ryzen 4000 is only slightly inferior to the desktop Ryzen 3000.
So, Ryzen 3700XAMD Ryzen 7 3700X Desktop CPU Review: A frugal 8 core and 16 thread processor gains about 18 thousand points in the 3D Mark Physics test. For Ryzen 7 4800HAMD Ryzen 7 4800H with a TDP of 45 W, the result is 15 thousand points. Considering the radically different power and cooling requirements, the lag of the mobile chip is insignificant.
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2. AMD Products First to 7nm Process Technology
It is not difficult to achieve impressive results in benchmarks on desktop PCs, where there is no emphasis on power supply and cooling. However, for laptops, a banal increase in the number of cores and frequencies is not suitable.
The Ryzen 4000 was the first AMD processors to use the 7nm process technology. This means that the transistors have decreased, and their number on the chip has increased. At the same time, the heat dissipation also decreased - thus the engineers fit eight cores into the CPU, without getting out of the 15W TDP.
And what about Intel? The company has been sitting on a 14nm Skylake architecture for five years. It got to the point that the tenth generation of Comet Lake processors is no different from the eighth Kaby Lake Refresh.
Of course, Intel is also working on new architectures: this year on the market appeared processors of the Ice Lake family, made using a 10-nanometer process technology. However, laptops based on them are too expensive. Moreover, in comparison with 14-nanometer solutions, they did not becomeIntel's Confusing Messaging: Is Comet Lake Better Than Ice Lake? more powerful. So the AMD Ryzen 4000 is still the most advanced processor to date.
3. Advanced integrated graphics
The Ryzen 3000 also used AMD's proprietary Vega graphics, significantly surpassing Intel UHD Graphics. In Ryzen 4000, the architecture of video accelerators has been refined, and now they can compete with the top-end Intel Iris Plus and Nvidia discrete cards.
It is worth clarifying that we are not talking about gaming solutions like the RTX 2080, but about “notebook” MX-series cards. Built-in Vega delivers lightweight gaming and video performanceAMD Ryzen 4000 iGPU Almost Catches Nvidia's GeForce MX250 10 watt MX250, heating less and consuming less energy.
4. Backlog for the future
One of the strengths of Intel processors has always been single core performance. For a long time, AMD could not close the lag in single-threaded tasks, but with the release of Ryzen 3000, the situation began to change.
In the new generation, the core performance was increased by another 25%. In addition, AMD has significantly improved multi-core performance. Considering that more and more programs moves away from single-threaded instructions, the potential of "reds" is yet to be revealed in the future.
5. Price
It would seem that with such a set of advantages, AMD laptops should be more expensive than their Intel counterparts. But no, even within the same model, the version with Ryzen 4000 will cost less. For example, the Asus ZenBook UX434IQ with Ryzen 4700u sells in the US for $ 1,000, and the Intel Core i7-10510u-based UX434FL for $ 1,200.
In Russia, laptops with Ryzen 4000 will appear very soon. So if you intend to upgrade, then it makes sense to wait to get more performance for less money.
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