The Zephyrus is not an ideal competitor for the MSI G76 Raider systems that Intel sampled for Alder Lake Mobile’s launch, as the Zephyrus is a mid-size 14″ laptop and the Raider is a 17″ desktop replacement. It will be interesting to see how Intel compares to AMD when Intel doesn’t have such a large power advantage to draw on. In tests where AMD trailed Intel’s 11th Generation, the 6900HS now matches or beats it. The 6900HS improves on the 5900HS’ performance and power consumption. Overall efficiency is just a bit higher than Intel in at least some tests. While it’s not as fast as the 12900HK, it also uses less power. The Ryzen 9 6900HS is a little hard to grade. AMD uses roughly 8 percent less power than Intel, which gives the Ryzen 9 6900HS a modest performance-per-watt advantage.Ī Solid Step Forward, But Not a Knockout Blow
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If we translate those figures into joules based on the Handbrake 1.4 rendering times above, it means Apple’s M1 Pro used less than half the power of the Alder Lake system. Measured power consumption in Handbrake with the laptop in High Performance mode was 59.5W for Apple, 93.9W for AMD, and 126W for Intel. All of that resulted in just a one-minute difference in battery life. And that’s with a larger display, better test results across the board, and even a brighter version of Asus’ gaudy AniMe Matrix LED lightshow on the lid (pictured above). This new Zephyrus G14, which includes the Ryzen 9 6900HS processor, AMD Radeon RX 6800S GPU, and a slew of new features, clocks in at a nearly identical 10:08. Last year’s model clocked in at an impressive 10 hours and 9 minutes of battery life in our video rundown test. PCMag notes that the Ryzen 9 6900HS’ 10 hr 8 minute battery life was within one minute of the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Reviewers had very little time with these systems, but battery data from Hot Hardware shows the Asus system in a very positive light. The new platform’s power consumption, however, is quite good. As expected, AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HS is not as fast as the Alder Lake-based Core i9-12900HK in CPU tests.
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