When AMD
introduced its Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs at CES, the company made bold claims of game-changing performance. Coming off of years of underwhelming laptop chips, AMD promised it had
optimized Ryzen 4000 for mobile computing.
Now we’ve tested those claims in
AMD’s Ryzen 9 4900HS chip, which AMD announced March 16. It's a 7nm, 8-core/16-thread chip with a base clock of 3GHz and a boost clock of 4.3GHz. It also offers 8 Radeon Vega cores. The ‘H’ means it’s intended for power users, and the ‘S’ means it’s for “slim”-profile laptops. We’re stunned at the CPU’s impressive
tour de force that defeats just about every Intel 8th- and 9th-gen laptop CPU we’ve ever seen.
Our testbed is the amazing
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (
$1,450 at Asus.com), a 14-inch laptop which also offers Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. AMD promises about 100 more partner products in the near future. Keep reading to learn how this chip brings AMD back into the mobile game—and why Intel should be worried.
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