PC World - USA (2020-05)

MAY 2020 PCWorld 19

Our multithreaded Cinebench scores for the Asus
ROG Zephyrus G14, the first notebook to use
AMD’s Ryzen 4000 mobile chips.

previous, 9th-gen parts. The exception may
be the new “step-up” Core i7-10875H, where
Hamberger said Intel expects up to a
20-percent improvement. He called that just

an estimate, however; because of the

limitations placed on Intel by the coronavirus,

Intel hasn’t actually tested the Core

i7-10875H yet. “We expect it soon, and we’ll

run those system tests as soon as we have it,”

Hamberger said.

None of this gets us as close as we’d like

for comparing the Core i7-10875H or any of

the other new chips against AMD’s Ryzen 9

4900HS. But you can take our tests of the

older Core i9-9980HK or similar parts and

tack on 10 percent or more to their scores,

just for fun.

One aspect that Intel hasn’t said much

about is battery life, a critical element in

notebooks though less so in gaming models,

where they’re almost always plugged in.

Hamberger said the best-performing system

that Intel has seen in its labs has delivered

between 20 and 22 hours of battery life,

based on a video rundown test.

PLATFORM IMPROVEMENTS

HELP ROUND OUT CPU

PERFORMANCE

Intel’s latest 10th-gen mobile chips have a

new chipset, too: the followup to the

existing HM370, known as the HM470. On

board are 40 PCI 3.0 lanes, 16 of them

sitting off of the CPU.

One of its more interesting features of the

HM470 is the addition of two Thunderbolt

3.0 controllers, each of which supports two

ports. That means Comet Lake-H laptops

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Core i9-9900K

Asus ROG Zephyrus G

Ryzen 9 4900 HS

Acer Predator Helios 

Core i9-9980HK

MCore i9-9880HSI GE65 Raider

Acer Predator Helios 

Ryzen 7 2700

Origin PC EVOCore i9-8950HK -17S

AlienwCore i7-9750Hare M15 R

Dell G7Core i7-9750H

MCore i7-8750HSI GS75 Stealth

MCore i7-9750HSI GS

AlienwCore i7-7820HKare 17 R

Gigabyte Aero 15Core i7-7700HQ

Gigabyte Aero 15X

Core i7-7700HQ

Cinebench R15.

Multi-core performance

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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