First AMD Ryzen Mobile Laptop Tested Shows Strong Zen-Vega Performance (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: AMD Ryzen Mobile processors are arriving now in retail laptops from the likes of HP, Lenovo and Acer. With the first CPUs to hit the market, AMD took quad-core Ryzen and coupled it with 8 or 10-core Vega GPUs on a single piece of silicon in an effort to deliver a combination of strong Ryzen CPU performance along with significantly better integrated graphics performance over Intel's current 8th Gen Kaby Lake laptop chips. AMD Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U chips have 4MB of shared L3 cache each, but differ with respect to top-end CPU boost clock speeds, number of integrated Radeon Vega Compute Units (CUs), and the GPU's top-end clocks. Ryzen 7 2700U is more powerful with 10 Radeon Vega CUs, while Ryzen 5 2500U sports 8. Ryzen 7 2700U also boosts to 3.8GHz, while Ryzen 5 2500U tops out at 3.6GHz. In the benchmarks, Ryzen Mobile looks strong, competing well with Intel quad-core 8th Gen laptop CPUs, while offering north of 60 percent better performance in graphics and gaming. Battery life is still a question mark, however, as some of the very first models to hit the market from HP have inefficient displays and hard drives instead of SSDs. As more premium configurations hit the market in the next few weeks, hopefully we'll get a better picture of Ryzen Mobile battery life in more optimized laptop builds.

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Re:Power utilization is key

[Gravis Zero]

We would all benefit from good competition in the CPU and chipset market. And I want to support AMD by buying their products. However, they have to put out good, competitive products for me to buy.

AMD is putting out a good competitive product. The problem here is that you are NOT the buyer of their product because this laptop is an HP product, not an AMD product. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if it's uncovered that Intel has begun paying off every OEM to ensure no laptops with AMD chips have a longer battery life than their Intel counterpart. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if HP already had the AMD laptop fully designed and they swapped out their regular offerings for these power inefficient components to meet their contractual obligations with Intel.

When Intel cannot compete they simply cheat. They have been doing it for over 30 years so why would they change now?