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short-n-round Results aren't that surprising given this is a refresh Hx part (just a desktop in a mobile package). Intel has been making good strides across the board recently. Another thing – please pay a bit closer attention when reviewing these articles. The picture caption is wrong – that is not a Raptor Lake part, It's Lunar Lake, and it's not the first time I have seen this. Reply
Notton If real, impressive for a laptop. I would add a further caveat. Single core performance on a benchmark ≠ gaming performance. You can check this with a 9800X3D. It only scores 4425 Single, and 39974 Multi (in the same passmark benchmark) but the 9800X3D dances around a 285K when it comes to games. If Tom's gets their hands on a 290HX, I hope they can test it against the 9955X3D. Reply
Stomx Why in just the first its EUV lithography product Intel have not literally exterminated, ripped into pieces and blowed like a dust its rival AMD for the multiyear humiliation the only advantages of which so far were 1. Nanometers 2. Large Level3 caches 3. Chiplets and despite of lack of all that Intel was still keeping domination in laptop market? 🙂 Reply
call101010 Mobile CPU makers should focus on fanless cooled CPU with higher performance. Intel is not good when it comes to power/performance.. At this age , anything portable should be cooled without any fans. and at lower watts. it is about time. Reply
Pierce2623 So who’s paying for a Core Ultra 9 but then cheaping out on Arrow Lake with it’s inferior efficiency and latency. Intel acts like Panther Lake should be a legit game changer. So why muddy the waters with Arrow Lake skus? Reply
shady28 Pierce2623 said: So who’s paying for a Core Ultra 9 but then cheaping out on Arrow Lake with it’s inferior efficiency and latency. Intel acts like Panther Lake should be a legit game changer. So why muddy the waters with Arrow Lake skus? Panther Lake is for thin and light, mostly without a discrete GPU. AMD literally has nothing to compete with Panther Lake in thin and light categories. I do however see a lot of bogus comparisons of Panther Lake to far more power hungry chips meant to go into big, heavy, hot running gaming laptops. That is where these chips come in. Reply
usertests shady28 said: AMD literally has nothing to compete with Panther Lake in thin and light categories. Sure they do, Strix/Gorgon/Krackan Point. All covering a similar TDP range to Panther Lake. AMD advertises theirs with a 15-54W TDP range (15-28W for quad-cores), while every Panther Lake chip has a base TDP of 25W and turbo TDP of 55W or 80W. They will be losing in iGPU performance, but only definitively to Panther Lake with Arc B390/B370. They will probably be losing in efficiency, but not enough to ruin the AMD owner's day. AMD can go back to basics and compete on price. Reply
shady28 usertests said: Sure they do, Strix/Gorgon/Krackan Point. All covering a similar TDP range to Panther Lake. AMD advertises theirs with a 15-54W TDP range (15-28W for quad-cores), while every Panther Lake chip has a base TDP of 25W and turbo TDP of 55W or 80W. They will be losing in iGPU performance, but only definitively to Panther Lake with Arc B390/B370. They will probably be losing in efficiency, but not enough to ruin the AMD owner's day. AMD can go back to basics and compete on price. Sure, they can compete on price. a/xgbUCxp Reply
usertests shady28 said: Sure, they can compete on price. Looks cherry picked, even Intel doesn't claim their iGPU is +93% faster than Strix Point. If a Panther Lake X7 laptop is $1,200, maybe the HX 370/470 equivalent needs to be $900. The market will sort this out and punish AMD for being slow. Reply
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