AMD's most important product ever - Ryzen 9 4900HS

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LurkerJ said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

The 7700HQ  was the last one of that line. The reason is because the Q stands for Quadcore and the top i7 chips after that one had 6 cores, it just didn't make sense anymore.

Speaking of which, I got a 7700HQ, and it gets destroyed by the 4700U

Bold: what's the 6 core-based successor called?

Underline: wait, WAT. How is that even possible? Isn't the 4700U a 15W chip and the 7700 is a 45w chip? What am I missing?

Just H now, no Q or K behind it anymore.

Yeah, the 7700HQ is only a 4 core/ 8 thread part, is a bit slow on clock speeds already compared to more modern laptops (2.8Ghz base, 3.4Ghz all-core turbo compared to the 2 Ghz base and 4.1 Ghz turbo), and it got security updates for Spectre/Meltdown/Spoiler/TLBleed and so on that slowed it down further. Add to this that my laptop has it's CPU at a 35W TDP so the CPU rarely boosts past 3.1 Ghz and that the 4700U has 8 physical cores and you'll understand why the 15W chip is much more performant than the old 35/45W chip.