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Posted by Choom
 - Today at 12:57:07
It actually gets worse. Medusa point is actually halving the their RDNA3.5  CU count to make space for the increased CPU cores. Forget keeping the performance the same, AMD is reverting it the other way, they're going backwards..

So I guess z3 extreme will me slower than z2 extreme, if it is based on Medusa point?!? :3

Dear lord. AMD. Wtf are you doing?!?!?

People will literally jump ship to arm as an alternative if you gonks don't wake the duck up out of your Cyberpsychosis. It's no wonder valve is working with fex for x86 emulation on arm.

Our only hope left for improvements to igpu now, besides intel is arm as an alternative, with Snapdragon X2 elite and n1x. AMD full on vacation for the next 2 years. Possibly more. Lol, "steam deck 2 rumours" rip to that being AMD anymore too.
Posted by M2026
 - Today at 02:32:50
"The sign of a true "genius" folks..."
You proved your "brilliant" logic by not understanding my point about foreigners, because even an idiot would understand that :)))

"Intel delivered a good product"
Do you mean a 2-4% performance increase (CPU) compared to the previous generation? At this rate, only our future grandchildren will experience a doubling of performance.
Posted by opckieran
 - Yesterday at 23:28:25
Quote from: je07681 on January 28, 2026, 19:46:51
Quote from: M2026 on January 27, 2026, 22:05:02@opckieran 15 hours ago
,,Intel has just delivered +70% iGPU..."
Yep, just a slight correction – TSMC, not Intel :)

What is the name of the TSMC iGPU involved?  Or are you confusing who fabbed the iGPU chip with the actual product?

That's his whole shtick. He's a fanboy with a late '90s personal computing mindset who can't stand the fact that Intel delivered a good product, so he tries to deflect by crediting the manufacturing node over Intel's engineering here (which is pointless; delivered products are what count, not the node).

Funnier still, he has failed to consider the basic notion that by his ridiculous "logic", neither AMD nor nVidia are responsible for their own processors either; since they are both fabbed by TSMC as well, which... undermines his entire argument. Whoops! 🤣 The sign of a true "genius" folks...
Posted by ObsfuNOT
 - Yesterday at 15:30:17
Why is there no full Render configuration Information on that Intel slide In the Form of Shaders:TMUs:ROPs? And how are folks to get the Theoretical maximum GTexel and GPixel processing rates to compare to other's iGPU designs that have the Shaders:TMUs:ROPs info published. I'm sure that just listing the RT and Matrix Math units counts is insufficient as there are still Raster Only Gaming Titles out there that still get played and if AI Up_scaling or Frame generation is not used because it's not really needed for a 5W gaming title!
Posted by je07681
 - January 28, 2026, 19:46:51
Quote from: M2026 on January 27, 2026, 22:05:02@opckieran 15 hours ago
,,Intel has just delivered +70% iGPU..."
Yep, just a slight correction – TSMC, not Intel :)

What is the name of the TSMC iGPU involved?  Or are you confusing who fabbed the iGPU chip with the actual product?
Posted by M2026
 - January 27, 2026, 22:05:02
@opckieran 15 hours ago
,,Intel has just delivered +70% iGPU..."
Yep, just a slight correction – TSMC, not Intel :)
Posted by Nice, but Price?
 - January 27, 2026, 18:09:41
IntelFan (and RobertJasiek), certainly, in the end, you're probably not wrong. But soldered 32 GB RAM is a bit of a too much of a all-in-it-together/planned obsolescence and makes it e-waste already for those who want to run a ~30B LLM at an 8-bit quant (30 GB). Or maybe even some other things.
Posted by RobertJasiek
 - January 27, 2026, 17:53:21
Better for their profit per sold item - worse considering avoided purchases by people requiring upgradeability.
Posted by IntelFan
 - January 27, 2026, 16:06:33
Quote from: CAMM2, LPCAMM on January 27, 2026, 14:46:13So, to solve the MT/s issue with changeable RAM, CAMM2/LPCAMM2/SOCAMM2 exist. So, what I would complain about then, is that no LPCAMM2/SOCAMM2 laptops exist.

Yes, but I believe they are all in together (hardware vendors like Asus, Asrock, Dell, etc. and chip designers like Intel, AMD). They all know about it, but imo deliberately not use flexible/user-upgradable parts, because it's better for their own profit.
Posted by Kismet
 - January 27, 2026, 16:02:04
Nice, but Price?,

It's gonna be expensive if you want a decent laptop because that's the nature of the market. All the good laptops no matter what chip is inside are expensive.

Most of the larger efficiency gains seem to be under lighter loads like browsing. When gaming / heavier loads, it's diminishing returns probably like you said 22% more efficient. I think someone did a gaming battery life test and it was 2 hrs and 30 min. Compared to strix point which is closer to 2 hrs.

I think if you care about absolute efficiency, should wait Nvidia's N1. Because traditionally arm has always reigned supreme here. But then you've might to deal with compatibility issues. Wait and see if there's been any major improvement here or not, I guess.
Posted by opckieran
 - January 27, 2026, 15:39:56
Quote from: AMDfan on January 27, 2026, 09:40:24
Quote from: opckieran on January 27, 2026, 06:23:36Meanwhile, AMD fanboys are upset; the latest rumors say we'll be stuck with RDNA 3.5 until 2029! I'd be mad too!

Currently going through the 5 stages of grief. Almost at the end now. I've just come to accept it.

From now on I will no longer comment on AMD gfx IP unless it's PlayStation or Exynos news. Not until after 2029, if their Radeon division hasn't been sold off to Sony by then.

At which point we all lose thanks to AMD's long-inflicted mismanagement of Radeon.
Posted by CAMM2, LPCAMM
 - January 27, 2026, 14:46:13
IntelFan, soldered LPDDR5X memory reaches 8000 MT/s on Strix Halo and 9600 MT/s in Panther Lake. Upgradable DDR5 SODIMM memory reaches 5600 MT/s on AMD and may be slightly more on INTEL. 9600/5600 = 71% higher memory bandwidth and potentially 71% higher iGPU performance: They are the best iGPUs because they have the necessary bandwidth.

So, to solve the MT/s issue with changeable RAM, CAMM2/LPCAMM2/SOCAMM2 exist. So, what I would complain about then, is that no LPCAMM2/SOCAMM2 laptops exist. (CAMM2 is for desktops, would be nice if there were any AM5 mobos with CAMM2, too)

The only issues I see, is how much soldered memory one has and how likely it is that memory goes bad, because if it does, a repair is going to be impossible.

For LLM self-hosting, editing, running virtual machines, etc., I personally wouldn't complain too much if it there is a 48 GB RAM option.
64 GB RAM is going to be mostly relevant for LLMs.
96 GB RAM would allow to host e.g Gpt-Oss-120B or GLM-4.5-Air (quant) with almost full context¹.

¹ (go to huggingface.co/spaces/oobabooga/accurate-gguf-vram-calculator, paste huggingface.co/unsloth/gpt-oss-120b-GGUF/blob/main/gpt-oss-120b-F16.gguf into the calculator, set the context to full and see the (V)RAM consumption)
Posted by IntelFan
 - January 27, 2026, 14:12:11
Quote from: opckieran on January 27, 2026, 06:23:36AMD fanboys are upset

As an IntelFan I'm also upset about because the best Intel iGPUs (10-12 graphics cores) are only available with soldered memory. Likewise AMD makes its Halo only available with soldered memory. Both use the same dirty tricks, when a product is too good and flexible for the customer, and then make it immutable. Enough reason to be mad about them both.
Posted by Nice, but price?
 - January 27, 2026, 11:52:48
Performance rating
Strix Halo memory interface is 256-bit lanes wide vs Panther Lake' 128-bit, but SH is only 65% faster.

Efficiency
When a power limit is set, it means the whole SOC or only the iGPU?
Not power limited - default power profile
B390 vs 890M: B390 is 22% more power efficient (and is similar to the 130V, 140V, Strix Halo's 8050S / 8060S and a 4050 Laptop.
So, not much, except it's better than the 890M.

B390 vs 860M: B390 is 34% more power efficient (a 1 full node / generation improvement).

B390 vs 880M: B390 is 65% more power efficient (a 2 full nodes / generations improvement).

With different power limits
B390 (20W) vs 860M (15W TDP): B390 is 90% more energy efficient.
B390 (20W) vs 880M (15W TDP): B390 is 135% more energy efficient.
B390 vs 890M (15W TDP): B390 is 46% (35W), 61% (28W) and 75% (20W) more energy efficient.

So, the B390 wins against the 860M, 880M and 890M ranging from 22% (no power limit) to 138% (20W power limit).

Personally, I prefer a light weight laptop and as such a low power SoC of, say, 15W up to maybe 30W TDP. And this is where Panther Lake shines, which is very nice to see.

But if this iGPU comes only in expensive laptops, people will simply get a 4050 laptop. So, Intel, maybe reduce the number of cores or whatever to make a cheaper SoC, with the same iGPU performance.

To test
I wonder how the B390 iGPU performs in path-tracing / full ray tracing. E.g. Cyberpunk 2077' Overdrive preset. Can you test this (performance and power efficiency)?

The big question is how well/stable do games run, maybe you can test that too (you did test the iGPU of the 1st gen Qualcomm Elite and many games didn't run/were unstable).

Quote from: Terror Byte on January 27, 2026, 03:45:00The fact that 8060s @ 80W was more efficient than Panther Lake at its default power level tells me that 8060S compared at 20/28/35/45W would be very efficient too.
With no limit the 8060S is only 5% more power efficient, so it's kinda within the margin of error or insignificant. But AFAIK, Panther Lake has 1 full node advantage (TSMC 3N for the GPU part?). Looks like something is reducing Panther Lake' power efficiency (Intel's CPU cores or something being clocked too high (would probably be the iGPU, because at low power Panther Lake's iGPU becomes really power efficient)).

Dave2D has similar to report: youtu.be/fDwt9AiItqU?t=142 ("Windows is Ruining New Laptops."), but the interesting thing he says is that Apple is taking laptop market share due to how Windows 11 is.
Posted by AMDfan
 - January 27, 2026, 09:40:24
Quote from: opckieran on January 27, 2026, 06:23:36Meanwhile, AMD fanboys are upset; the latest rumors say we'll be stuck with RDNA 3.5 until 2029! I'd be mad too!

Currently going through the 5 stages of grief. Almost at the end now. I've just come to accept it.

From now on I will no longer comment on AMD gfx IP unless it's PlayStation or Exynos news. Not until after 2029, if their Radeon division hasn't been sold off to Sony by then.