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A comment on AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business with the Ryzen 9 4900HS.

Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by rurban on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @09:38AM (#22934834)
I went from a €2000 MacBook to a €500 ThinkPad with Ryzen. Before the lockdowns. Not comparable whatsoever. Benchmarks are usually 30% to 300% faster. The Ryzen even blows away my fastest desktop machine with Intel and 4x more RAM.

Unfortunately I cannot benchmark with the fast AMD because it switches frequencies too fast. Lots of state changes. Eg it's faster on higher load than on low load. All my benchmarking logic is wrong. You really need a locked down kernel now for proper measurements.

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Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by dr_zoidberg on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:36AM (#22935290)
Is that Renoir (Ryzen 4x00) chip? As far as I've read, the 3x00 mobile (Zen+) were good but not amazing. The Renoirs seem to be blowing everyone out of the water, and I've read several times that it seems to pack "desktop performance on a mobile envelope".
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Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by rurban on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @03:21PM (#22938404)
Yes, just the old one, a 3200. Still much better than my Intels.
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Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by Ratiofarmings on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:56PM (#22939231)
While that might be true and I am happy that you're happy, this is something different. Intel has competitive products to your cpu, outright better ones, too.

To Ryzen 4000(mobile) they don't. It's not even close.

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Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by dr_zoidberg on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @02:34PM (#22948712)
And apparently they won't have either against Ryzen 4000 desktop (Zen3 on 7nm+). Interesting times ahead...
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Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by Vrondi on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @02:07PM (#22937604)
Since there is not _yet_ a Thinkpad available with this chip, you must have a previous gen Ryzen chip which, yes, was still a bit behind. That has no application to this new gen chip which is out-performing all expectations.
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Re:AMD’s Mobile Revival: Redefining the Notebook Business wi... by cpursley on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @10:44AM (#22935342)
Which ThinkPad model and chip?
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