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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Asus M16 - The Cost of Using Intel...

Dave compares Asus M16 with i9 11900 + 3060 vs G15 with Ryzen 5900HS + 3070. You would think that the 3070 would win but they are surprisingly close. Maybe it's another case where the G15 has it's ram gimped and we know how important the RAM is with Ryzen. But the interesting thing is, while the M16 is a better laptop overall even outside of the performance as the screen is quite good and gives you gen 4 ssds, the Intel version has some issues. Even though it's thicker and has adjustments to make the airflow better, the noise is significantly louder and has 1 hour less battery life.

Could it simply be that the 3070 is MAX-Q and the 3060 Max-P? After all, the Intel system seems to be pulling a lot more power going by the very elaborate cooling yet much higher noise level and it drains the battery faster.

Also, could the CPU be some limiter here in some tests? The 5900HS has it's Power limit at least 10W lower than the 11900H and the CPU has the same amount of heatpipes as the GPU does.

It almost seems like you want AMD to be bad here.

According to Asus website:

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3060 Laptop GPU

With ROG Boost up to 1525MHz at 80W (95W with Dynamic Boost)

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Laptop GPU

With ROG Boost up to 1390MHz at 80W (100W with Dynamic Boost)

https://rog.asus.com/ca-en/laptops/rog-zephyrus/2021-rog-zephyrus-m16-series/spec

https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-zephyrus/2021-rog-zephyrus-g15-series/spec

So they are both Max Q however the 3070 has more cores but at lower clock.

The CPU could be but the fire strike graphics score which is GPU bound is also very close.

As for me wanting AMD to be bad here... The video in this case was very positive towards AMD version and I also mentioned that the Intel version is significantly louder with 1 hour less battery life even though it is thicker and has better airflow. I do have problems with AMD mobile (gen 3 ssds and 8gpu lanes) as I also have problems with Intel mobile (heat and worse battery) and this is one of those videos that showed off some of the characteristics of each version.