Friday, April 2nd 2021
Razer Could Introduce Company's First AMD-Powered Laptop
Razer, the maker of various gaming peripherals and gaming PCs/Laptops, has been a long-time user of Intel CPUs in their laptops devices. However, that might be changing just about now. According to some findings by @_rogame, there was a 3D Mark benchmark run that featured AMD Ryzen 5000 series "Cezanne" mobile processors. What is more interesting is the system it was running in. Called Razer PI411, this system is officially Razer's first AMD-powered laptop. While we don't have many details about it, we have some basic system configuration details. For starters, the laptop carries AMD's top-tier Ryzen 9 5900HX overclockable mobile processor. Carrying a configured TDP of 45 Watts (the maximum is 54 W), the system is likely not equipped with sufficient cooling for overclocking.
When it comes to the rest of the laptop, it features NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage. Being that this laptop was codenamed PI411, it could indicate a 14-inch model. However, we still don't know if it is ever going to hit consumer shelves. Being that Razer never carried an AMD CPU option, this could just be an engineering sample that the company was experimenting with, so we have to wait to find out more.
Source:
@_rogame (Twitter)
When it comes to the rest of the laptop, it features NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage. Being that this laptop was codenamed PI411, it could indicate a 14-inch model. However, we still don't know if it is ever going to hit consumer shelves. Being that Razer never carried an AMD CPU option, this could just be an engineering sample that the company was experimenting with, so we have to wait to find out more.
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We have to change this narrow & crippled method of thinking. It is not the actual use case of PBO that it can also be used for marketing purposes such as, "overclocking". PBO was written first hand and foremost for the "ThreadRipper Series" cpus which are mission critical workstation cpus that have to have stability to run on extended workloads that would stress out a regular cpu & motherboard system with its prolonged heat load, resulting in an emphasis on task efficiency, much the same as laptop computers. These are systems that the supply of power can easily be outstripped by the throughput oriented cpus if left unchecked.
I can mention just how many times I have said it previously, the Poole Frenkel Effect is the reason AMD developed this power monitoring software, not because how stupid DIY overclockers(sorry for the frank expression) could best void their warranty.
Because it's Razer, it's form over function now.
Not many laptops are built in the old "gaming" style, capable of decent cooling anymore, they are all thin and light, meant to be visually appealing but practically useless.