Wednesday, March 8th 2023
AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX Beats Higher Priced 13th Gen Core i7 Mobile Processor Options in Gaming Performance and Battery
AMD "Zen 4" processors offer unmatched efficiency at lower power, and notebook manufacturers are beginning to notice that the company's high core-count Ryzen 7045HX series "Dragon Range" mobile processors offer performance and battery-life highly competitive to 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" processors. The Ryzen 7 7745HX is an 8-core/16-thread processor with a single 5 nm "Zen 4" chiplet, and default TDP of 55 W. Chinese tech publication Golden Pig Upgrade reviewed a notebook powered by the 7745HX, and compared it with one rocking a Core i7-13700HX 8P+8E. The reviewer found the 7745HX to offer superior performance/Watt and gaming performance that either matches or beats the "Raptor Lake," which is held back by aggressive power-management and an older 10 nm-class process node.
Sources:
Golden Pig Upgrade (bilibili), Wccftech, VideoCardz
15 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX Beats Higher Priced 13th Gen Core i7 Mobile Processor Options in Gaming Performance and Battery
The main issue however is availability. Anyone who has tried to get AMD based laptop in the past can confirm that availability sucks. I hope that with silicon shortage being over and demand falling they can produce enough of these to make a dent in the market.
I was looking for a laptop with a AMD processor, the models that I was looking at doesnt have most of things I was looking into so I decided Intel.
Mobility is the x86 consumer segment with a larger T.A.M. than desktop, so AMD's increased presence in this segment is very important both for AMD and for consumers who would undoubtedly benefit from increased competition and options. Unfortunately, rhe vast majority of consumers in this segment probably don't even know AMD exists and most likely assumes "Intel" is the only option and synonymous with "CPU". The more consumers have a positive experience with AMD however, the less Intel will seem omnipresent in this segment. I've had my Asus Zephyrus G14 (Zen2/RTX 2060) for a while now and couldn't be happier, and I think most consumers would have a similar experience if they just take the chance.
Ps.
The whole problem is in trusting the trade names of the nanometers in the lithographic.
Ryzen mobile surpassed Intel a while back. It's difficult to compare laptops, but look at the figures from NotebookCheck's review of the Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 G1. Despite a 20% larger battery, the Intel laptop lasts one hour less on battery when browsing on Wifi.