![]() Compared to the Alienware x14 and the Gigabyte Aorus 17 (both with Intel Core i7-12700H), the battery gains were tremendous - Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 managed to last over 10 hours on one charge, while the Intel counterparts maxed out at around five hours. ![]() The processor, housed inside the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, stood its ground in terms of performance while delivering a huge increase in battery life. Tom’s Hardware compared the performance of the AMD Ryzen 6900HS to the Intel Core i9-12700H, and the results were favorable for AMD. ![]() Perhaps more importantly, it purportedly delivers a huge 2.62x increase in performance-per-watt over Alder Lake CPUs. ![]() The Rembrandt microarchitecture was said to deliver an up to 1.3X increase in performance over the previous Ryzen 5000 lineup. In theory, there should be plenty of options to choose from, and these CPUs should be able to find a home in some of the best gaming laptops, as well as slim notebooks made for working on the go.Īlthough benchmarks are still pretty scarce, AMD made some promises as to the performance of these chips upon announcing them. Those left disappointed with the AMD-posted figures will take solace in the fact that Zen 5, due in 2024, will be a clean-sheet design likely packing more cores and threads into the bargain.The lineup covers more entry-level models such as the Ryzen 5 6600HS, all the way up to the high-end Ryzen 9 6980HX that brings the clock speeds to up to 5.0GHz. What is clear in the interim is that innovating outside of cores and threads is very much alive. Whether or not AMD will retain enough horsepower to fend off upcoming Intel Core i9-13900K – rumoured to have 24 cores and 32 threads – is another matter which will be answered in a month or so’s time. That’s a pretty decent return without changing the core-and-thread floorplan.ĪMD’s move to a 5nm manufacturing process from TSMC is what gives Zen 4 the frequency muscle to extend comfortably past 5GHz on a few threads and, we conjecture, close to that seminal figure when all threads are utilised. Looking at the bigger picture, having a more muscular L2 will work better in the server environment – Zen 4 will span multiple markets and is to be the heartbeat of Genoa-based Epyc chips later on this year.īut it’s the combination of IPC and frequency that really gives Ryzen 7000 Series its pop.Ĭomparing the 16C32T Ryzen 9 7950X directly against the also-16C32T Ryzen 9 5950X you’ll be familiar with, AMD contends the new desktop chief is appreciably faster in gaming and around 40 per cent nippier for multi-threaded workloads. Knowing that Zen 4 cores double the L2 cache compared to Zen 3, it’s actually eye-opening to see how little benefit derives from this change. Locking Zen 3 and Zen 4 CPUs at 4GHz and evaluating results on eight-core, 16-thread chips from each generation, AMD reckons anyone investing in the new platform ought to see double-digit gains in many popular applications.īreaking down key drivers, you’ll notice tweaks to the front-end and load/store units account for 60 per cent of that improvement, or around eight per cent IPC. Now, 13 per cent may not sound like a whole lot, especially when considered against the backdrop of Zen 4 arriving almost two years after Zen 3’s desktop bow with Ryzen 50000 series, but the numbers begin to make sense when you consider the fourth generation of Zen is a refinement of the architecture, rather than a clean-sheet overhaul. Providing more meat on the bones as we inch closer to the September 27 launch date for Ryzen 7000 Series based on Zen 4 technology, AMD provided further in-house numbers which show the new architecture to offer a geomean 13 per cent IPC improvement over predecessor Zen 3.
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