AMD VS INTEL TITLE FIGHT!!

  

AMD VS INTEL TITLE FIGHT!!

I have got not one, buttwo of the same laptop here on the table. It all comes down tothis Intel versus AMD. Comparing them in laptops hasbecome practically impossible over the last couple of years, because nobody makes an identical machine where only the CPU is different. Excuse me, did I say nobody? The XMG Core 15 claims to give absolutely equaltreatment to both sides. So then with everything else the same, who will be victorious? I don't know. All I know is that the teleprompter appears to have gained sentience and is commanding me totell you about our sponsor. Instantly see your currentand past network activity, detect malware and blockbadly behaving apps on your PC or Android device with GlassWire. Use offer code Linus toget 25% off GlassWire at the link down below. (upbeat music) With the notable exceptionof the motherboard chipset and storage, don'tworry we'll get to that, every other part of thesetwo systems is exactly alike. Same RTX 3060 GPU, same 62Wh battery, and same 1920 by 1080,165 Hz, IPS display. 

This gives us somethingthat is really rare for mobile devices, an opportunity to run a truly apples to apples comparison between team blue and team red CPUs. And not just in terms ofCPU performance benchmarks, that would make my job easy, but it wouldn't give us the full picture. So on your right, Intel Inside, the brand spanking new Corei7-11800H weighing in at $2,188. And on your left, is AMD'smobile bread and butter, the Ryzen 7 5800H. And right out of the gate, AMD's 5800H is showing abig part of what's made it such an enthusiast darling. Even though it also haseight cores and 16 threads and boosts just 0.2 gigahertz lower, it ends up priced almost $100below its Intel competition. But there is more here than meets the eye. Take the exterior for instance. We have definitely got the same chassis and therefore the same port arrangement, but that doesn't mean theI/O is exactly the same. This is a USB Type-C port. This is a Thunderbolt 4 port, a feature that rankspretty high on my list of nice-to-haves in a laptop, especially at this kind of price. Now to be clear, USB-C can be used as a single-cable docking solution, running your display,network and peripherals, not to mention power. But Thunderbolt, justplain does it better, with more bandwidth fordisplays and storage, Daisy chain support andcompatibility of course with pesky Thunderbolt only peripherals. Now Thunderbolt is an Intel technology. So while some desktop AMDmotherboards do have it, courtesy of an onboard Intel chip, it hasn't shown up in any AMDlaptops as far as I'm aware. But that should changewith rumors indicating that Thunderboltcompatibility will show up in the form of USB4 portson Ryzen 6000 series chips codename Warhol, in 2022-ish. But enough about that,let's talk performance. 

Surprisingly, Intel won thevast majority of our tests. Blender Classroom run, sign anywhere between eight and 30 seconds of improvement on repeat tests. 3DMark reported a 4.1%CPU score improvement. In Time Spy, it was more of thesame when it came to gaming. The 11800H showed a mildlead across the board, in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Rainbow 6: Siege and F1 2020. All with improvementsof up to 15% over AMD. But there's a catch, power. It's hard to say exactly which factors contribute the most here. But in spite of both CPUshaving default TDPs of 45W, our Ryzen CPU settled in at around 60W, with our Intel chipself-reporting power consumption as high as 100W and settling in around 80W during extended workloads. Wow, I mean on the desktop, 20W is like having some more RGB in your case. But on mobile, PCMark'sModern Office battery test gave AMD a 31% edge over Intel at the same screen brightness. That's a big deal. Ask any EV owner, how they'dfeel about 30% more range versus an extra five to 15% more power. They're gonna take the 30% every time. But Intel's heavier powerdraw comes from more than just turboing up theircores so aggressively. The Core i7-11800H hassupport for PCIe Gen 4, which might feel a bitoverkill for a laptop, but it gives manufacturers an opportunity to nearly double the sequentialread and write performance of their system drive forjust the $60 difference between a Samsung 980Pro and the 970 EVO Plus that XPG paired with AMD's Ryzen 7 5800H. Now, sequential I/O isn'tthe be-all and end-all. In PCMark's storage test,the gap does begin to narrow, and we even found when we ran a test a little over a year agothat no one on our team could tell the differencebetween a low end and the high end SSD doing everyday things like loading games and editing 4K videos. 

So outside of some very specific workloads like frequent large dataingests or big number crunching, I suspect most of youwon't be able to tell. But that PCIe advantageextends past the storage to the GPU as well. And while these RTX 3060's are capable of running PCIe Gen 4 with up to 16 lanes, which our Intel system is fully utilizing thanks to its four additional PCIe lanes. Our AMD system is connectedat just one quarter that speed with only eight Gen 3 lanes. But then we did already talk about gaming performance, didn't we? And we know then thatAMD's compromises here appear to have been wise ones. At least that's true on amachine running an RTX 3060 rather than a 3070 or a 3080. Boiling it all down then, the Intel machine wins on performance and the AMD machine wins on battery life. So what do you choose? Well what? I can't tell you. I already gave you all the numbers and I explained why they're such, from here, it's your call. If you've got the extra Benjamin to spend and you want balls tothe wall performance, the Intel version ofthe Core 15 looks great. It's got Thunderbolt, PCIe Gen 4 storage, however small the benefit might be, and you might have an easiertime sourcing it at the moment. But if battery life is what you're after, then I'd take the AMD. If you're wondering why AMD laptops tend to be a better value, I guess we finally got the answer. Just make sure that youtake that extra cash and spend it over at lttstore.com. Oh or with our sponsor. FreshBooks is easy touse accounting software designed specifically with you in mind, the small business owner. FreshBooks has everything youneed to manage your books, invoicing, expenses,time-tracking and more. 

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