An interesting proxy for CPU evolution is seeing the recommendations shift in communities like reddit.com/r/buildapc. Last year many medium to high end builds were choosing intel CPUs, but now most are recommending AMD. The last bastion will be professional gamers and streamers when they upgrade their 9900KS level CPUs - likely when the new 3080 gpus come out.<p>Good on AMD for pushing the competition forward by significant amounts.
The LTT review [0] also had good things to say about the battery life. This CPU seems very power-efficient when compared to a 9980HK.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYqG31V4qtA</a>
The natural question now is how much the i9-10980HK differs from the 9980HK that the 4800HS seems to trounce handily. Judging by the fact that it's still on some iteration of 14nm(++++++), it looks to be more of the same strategy of aggressive turbo to hopefully compensate for lackluster IPC.<p>Hope to see more high performance AMD laptop design wins as a result!
It's very promising. Can't wait to see more laptop offers on this chip. The current Asus Zephyrus G14 seems to gamer-y in terms of the design.<p>I'd buy the same hardware in a more mature and grown-up chassis like current Dell XPS 13 in a heartbeat.
I'm excitedly awaiting for the Ryzen 4000 Thinkpad anouncements, hopefully I can get to upgrade my aging P51. First time I'm exited for a tech launch in a long time.
Anyone got a list of laptops with this in, I'm due an upgrade and would like a 4k ish screen. Don't really care about gaming at all, would just like everything to be very fast.<p>Battery life on these parts really shocked me. At least as good as Intel for far better performance!
Once again I see "Ryzen 4000 Review" and once again I'm disappointed to find out that it's actually a review of the 4000 series laptop processors. Can we change the title to reflect that? They're not the same - laptop 4000 is the same architecture as the desktop 3000 cpus (that came out last year) afaik (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_2</a>).
I don't get why AMD used 3000 naming for desktop Zen 2 CPUs and 4000 for mobile CPUs.<p>It is a bit misleading. When I researched some laptops and saw trhey had Ryzen 7 3700U I wronly presumed they are using Zen 2 CPUs, but I've found out that 3000 series mobile CPUs are using Zen+.
I'm really excited with the prospect of a a fast, multi core chip that does not throttle on a laptop. That G14 that everyone seems to be doing the initial review with shows really nice single and multicore performance with a small thermal signature. The gaming 'workout' is not terribly dissimilar to what I'd hope to see unplugged doing development.<p>The i9 I've got in my work laptop just cannot handle the watts it tries to consume. I've held off updating my personal laptop waiting for something that is not an 8lb+ brick to allow it to run with a load. Should be a promising Spring/Summer.
My favorite review so far has to be: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLH0Q6CZF4&t=0s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aLH0Q6CZF4&t=0s</a>
"Now Intel is in (even more) Trouble - AMD RYZEN 4000 Mobile Review (ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14)"<p>by der8auer
I was looking forward to other laptops in the 4000 series, but I guess with the current world situation, those will probably be pushed back to fall releases. I'd like to see one of these things with Ryzen 4000 + amdgpu as a Linux laptop.
I still have not heard an official statement what the Thunderbolt 3 story is for these CPUs.
Could we get it?
Will we get it?<p>Without this I simply can't buy em as we've invested in TB3 Docks for the past two years and are pretty happy with them.
One (biased?) metric of performance and efficiency of modern cpu is the Random X algorithm used in mining cryptocurrency like Monero. It is designed to use all the cpu subsystems including memory controller. The top CPUs by far for RandomX are AMD ryzen 3000 series both in terms of performance as well as efficiency.<p><a href="https://monerobenchmarks.info/" rel="nofollow">https://monerobenchmarks.info/</a>
I would really like to see Laptop Reviews sort by price first, then logical maximums within a given narrow price range.<p>It would make sense to group by Price, then key secondary features like: Weight, Screen Quality, Raw performance (Mixed current year games score, Disk Bound, CPU bound, GPU bound) when plugged in, maximum battery time (default out of box experience).
Cool to see a mobile Ryzen chip performing well, but there was nothing mentioned about thermals in all their tests. That’s more concerning to me in a lighter laptop than the “muscle-books”
This is a dishonest review. The numbers are fine but the article surrounding it is dishonest. He is often repeating claims on weight but he compares 2070 (115W) and 2080 (150W) GPU laptops to a 2060 Max Q (65W) laptop. Mind you, there are no other 2060 Max Q laptops yet but there are 2060 laptops, that would've been much closer.
I'm glad to see AMD working on its single core IPC performance. The only CPU-bound workload I have as a user are game emulators, for which multicore performance is nearly irrelevant.