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Captain_Yuri said:

Pemalite said:
Going to be upgrading my Ryzen 2700u notebook to a 4800u this year. Absolutely pumped.

Bought the 2700u for eSports titles like Overwatch and StarCraft 2 whilst I was interstate for training, sadly I had to run Overwatch at 60% render scale of 1080P to maintain 60fps, so there was allot of stair stepping/jaggies, hoping the 4700u/4800u rectifies that.

Just waiting on Lenovo to release more notebooks, I want a model with more I/O, Upgradeable Ram, 15" 1080P IPS display, with a durable and plain look... Maybe something along the lines of the E595 model but with a 4800u instead of 3700u.

Nice! I used to think U series cpus were meh until the AMD ones came along and really gave some crazy performance! Notebookcheck recently did a review with the Acer swift, a $650 laptop with the 4700U and the performance is wow worthy.

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https://www.notebookcheck.net/Acer-Swift-3-SF314-42-Laptop-Review-Fast-slim-and-with-good-battery-life-The-Ryzen-subnotebook-is-almost-completely-convincing.469302.0.html#toc-performance-this-acer-laptop-has-a-lot-of-performance

I should be looking at around a 40% uplift in GPU capabilities... But it will come into it's own at higher resolutions, the Ryzen 2700u and 3700u were severely constrained by only 2400mhz DDR4... Where the 4800u will get some breathing room and operate at 3200mhz, so that is a good 30% uptick on that alone which will definitely help in memory bandwidth scenarios. Aka. Higher resolutions with lots of Alpha effects.

Plus the 2700u had terrible power management, often if I limited the CPU clockrate the APU could funnel more TDP from the CPU into the GPU netting a small increase in framerates. Hardly ideal.

Making me moist just thinking about it.