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Intel has launched their Tiger Lake laptop CPUs

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-launches-eight-core-tiger-lake-h-processors-more-power-lower-clocks

Looking at all the new laptop launches, it seems that every company including Asus saved their best for Intel. And laptops that should have went Ryzen like the Dell XPS line as those have a heavy focus on cpu and battery life are still Intel only. Same for a number of other mainstream companies like HP and Lenovo where the AMD version seems a bit inferior compared to the Tiger Lake laptops without even getting into the CPU performance.

First the goods:

- Tiger Lake has 20 PCI-E 4.0 lanes vs Ryzen 5000 16 PCI-E 3.0 lanes. Tiger Lake can offer up to 16 PCI-E 4.0 lanes to the GPU (but can be split up between storage and etc) where as Ryzen 5000 can only give 8 PCI-E 3.0 lanes to the GPU.

- Tiger Lake i9 and i7 H series also has 24MB of L3 vs Ryzen 5000 Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 has 20MB of L3.

- Intel's own benchmarks show that their i9 beating ryzen 9 by 10-26% but I'd take that with a grain of salt.

Now the bad:

- "The halo eight-core 16-thread Core i9-11980HK peaks at 5.0 GHz on two cores, fully supports overclocking, and despite its official 65W TDP, can consume up to 110W under heavy load." For comparison, Ryzen 5980HS has a peak of 65 Watts.

Remember, this is a laptop CPU. In order to cool the i9, that's gonna be a solid good luck! And the battery life is gonna be arse. So the i7 is gonna be the more interesting one. As always, wait for benchmarks. Personally, unless the battery life or performance is gonna be super awful, it will be hard to go with a Ryzen laptop when all of the laptop manufacturers decided to save their best for Intel's Tiger Lake. Asus for example gave all the Intel Tiger Lake laptops a webcam among a number of other things like exclusive models and higher tdp GPUs vs Ryzen laptops don't have a webcam and have less models. Alienware has gimped the GPU on their Ryzen laptops as Dell has been know to be an Intel Shill. But we will see how it turns out.