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Captain_Yuri said:

AMD Radeon RX 6600 series to feature up to 8GB GDDR6 memory and PCIe Gen4 x8 interface

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-6600-series-to-feature-up-to-8gb-gddr6-memory-and-pcie-gen4-x8-interface

"The card will rely on the x8 width of the interface."

Now the kicker about that is if you have a pci-e 3.0 motherboard, you will get pci-e 3.0 8x which has caused issues in the past with AMD cards. As an example, the 5500XT came with 8 lanes as well and you got lower performance with 3.0 vs 4.0.

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Radeon-RX-5500-XT-8G-Grafikkarte-275704/Specials/PCI-Express-3-vs-PCI-E-4-GPU-1339415/

While this is sad for upgraders (or AMD laptops since those still run on PCI-E 3.x), most new PCs by the time the card comes out should come with PCI-E 4.0, be it with Zen 2/3 or Rocket Lake

Also, while I adore PCGH for exploring the theoretical maximum performance of GPUs by pushing the CPU limit as far away as possible, I don't think the difference in an actual use case scenario will be bigger than a few fps. Still pretty bad, but not quite as horrible as the test at the time made it out to be. 

Captain_Yuri said:

"Igor was also able to gain access to a BIOS of Navi 23 Mobile Radeon SKU. Thus, we can see a much lower maximum clock speed than desktop variants (2350 MHz vs the rumored 2684 MHz)."

Now those are max clocks, we don't know what the actual clocks for the mobile versions will be yet but it will be interesting to see how these perform as AMD has been performing quite a bit better than Nvidia at lower resolutions in desktop.

Considering the amount of CU ain't that much lower than on the Navi 22 yet the power consumption is 100W lower, I have some doubts about those clock speeds being about the same between the two chips. 

Captain_Yuri said:

Intel 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H Performance Review: Fast and Power Hungry

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16680/tiger-lake-h-performance-review

It trades blows against the 5000 series in cpu related benchmarks and workloads. Sometimes Intel is faster, sometimes AMD is faster. While it's a big increase in performance compared to 10th gen laptops... There's one big problem... And that's power. Typically it will hang around 65 Watts which then will Thermal Throttle to 35 Watt compared to Ryzen 5000s 35-45 Watts. Here is peak power during Turbo:

No gaming tests yet which is what I am waiting to see. I will post it when the gaming reviews are out. Overall it's kinda annoying because with AMD, you get the god tier battery life but with Intel, you get additional features like Thunderbolt 4 and PCI-e gen 4 SSDs and more GPU lanes. No perfect CPU in the mobile space this generation. It does feel like a preview of Alder Lake S since Intel can't make Tiger Make power efficient with 10nm.

In Tom's hardware test, they couldn't change the power draw below 65W aside from throttling. Which makes me wonder about the veracity of the 45W in the table.

And of course, bringing a 65W chip in a 35-45W race and it's no wonder Tiger Lake-H won. The small GPU giving the CPU potentially some more cooling headroom than usual could possibly have helped too.

I also find the conclusion of Intel ludicrous for combining a 65W mobile CPU monster with a 3060 Max-Q to create a new class of light gaming laptops. So essentially what the 35W chips are meant for, just those can be paired with stronger GPUs and are not that far behind in CPU performance to make Intels way worthwhile...