AMD's most important product ever - Ryzen 9 4900HS
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN people cite it as a review showing Zen 2's efficiency and performance advantage over Intel in laptops.
What it is
Linus Tech Tips reviews AMD's Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile CPU in the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop, calling it a landmark product. It highlights strong performance against Intel along with good efficiency and battery life.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends m12k · 2020-12 · on “AMD CPU sales skyrocket with Ryzen 5000 launch, leaving Intel in the dust”
Have you considered an Asus Zephyrus G14? It comes with a Ryzen 9 4900HS and Linus (Tech Tips) seemed very impressed with it: [this video]
Cites piinbinary · 2020-03 · on “Ryzen 4000 Review”
The LTT review [0] also had good things to say about the battery life. This CPU seems very power-efficient when compared to a 9980HK. [0] [this video]
Cites blattimwind · 2020-03 · on “Ryzen 4000 Review”
> Games are traditionally single threaded and hard to parallelize. On my 3900X I've seen even single player action titles utilize 16+ threads with overall CPU utilization reaching peaks of 80-90 %. Yes, it maybe be hard to parallelize game engines, but all major ones heavily use multiple cores. A bunch of years ago (4-5) people would recommend an i3-K dual core for gaming, because you could overclock it to 5+ GHz on air. That was sufficient for many titles back then. (And these i3s would sometimes give you higher FPS compared to the more expensive quad-core options). But a CPU like that is far too weak for newer titles. > You still can't beat intel at the high end. Both in terms of heat and
Cites TazeTSchnitzel · 2020-04 · on “10-core i9-10900F desktop CPU lags behind 8-core Ryzen 9 4900HS mobile APU”
LinusTechTips recently took a look at a gaming laptop with the same APU and were super impressed with its Intel-scorching performance: [this video]
Cites arcticbull · 2020-04 · on “Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing”
> I haven't found many machines built on those. It's a shame. The 4900HS just came out, so I assume we'll be seeing more of them! (LTT: [this video] )