We tested head to head, with one adjustment. Ryzen 7 versus Core i7: The battle begins One of AMD’s historical claims to fame is the strength of its integrated GPUs. It’s also made the bold claim that its Ice Lake graphics are as good as AMD’s own. (The other, Comet Lake, trades off its older “Whiskey Lake” architecture for faster clock speeds.) Intel’s said quite a bit about the Ice Lake architecture as well as its new AI capabilities.
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Intel’s Ice Lake, meanwhile, is the code name for one of the new 10th-gen, 10nm Core families that Intel introduced earlier this year. They’ll arrive in the mobile space in 2020. This is significant, because it’s AMD’s 7nm, Zen 2 chips that are dominating on the desktop. What exactly is a Microsoft Ryzen Surface Edition? We’ve dedicated an entire article to explain the Surface Edition chip, but here’s the short answer: It’s a semi-custom quad-core chip with eight threads, but based on the older AMD Zen+ architecture and 12nm process. Price: Orders start at at $1,099 at $1,599 as testedĪnd in this corner: Microsoft’ Surface Laptop 3 for Business, featuring Intel’s mobile Core i7 (Ice Lake). Weight: 3.36 pounds (tested), with charger: 4 pounds.Processor: Quad-core Core i7-1065G7 (Ice Lake).Surface Laptop 3 for Business (Core i7, 15-inch) basic specs In this corner: Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 (Ryzen 7). Price: Orders start at $999 at Remove non-product link. Weight: 3.4 pounds (tested), with charger: 4 pounds.Battery: 46.9Wh (tested), 45.8Wh (rated) quick-charges up to 80 percent in 1 hour.
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Camera: 720p (user-facing) Windows Hello enabled.Ports: USB-C, USB-A, Surface Connect, 3.5mm jack.Below, we’ve simply called out the specific models we tested. Note that the Surface Laptop 3 ships in both 13.5-inch and 15-inch configurations. Surface Laptop 3 (Ryzen 5, 13.5-inch) review.Surface Laptop 3 (Ryzen 7, 15-inch) review.
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For deeper insight on the laptops themselves, here are links to their full reviews: Ryzen 7, courtesy of the Surface Laptop 3. Otherwise, though, it’s pretty close: Aside from Intel’s Comet Lake, this is Intel’s 10th-gen chips up against AMD’s (current) best and brightest. Read on for our head-to-head comparison of Core i7 vs. And, of course, Microsoft is using the Ryzen 7 Surface Edition, a semi-custom version of AMD’s mobile Ryzen chip. Each platform has a slightly different type of Wi-Fi, which is something we didn’t test directly. You’ll see differences in the size and manufacturer of the SSD used, for example, which has an impact on performance. Granted, it’s not an 100-percent direct comparison. This gives us the exceedingly rare opportunity to crown the best laptop processor of this generation, based on head-to head tests. PCWorld had the chance to test the Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 in both its Ryzen 7 and Core i7 versions, essentially identical laptops save for the CPU.
Comparing Intel’s Core i7 mobile chip to AMD’s Ryzen 7 mobile chip usually comes with the qualifier that every laptop implementation is different.
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