12 PCWorld JULY 2020

NEWS

IMAGE: DELL

Why you won’t see AMD’s

SmartShift technology in more

laptops until 2021

Dell’s G5 15 SE gaming laptop is the only one to have it this year. BY GORDON MAH UNG

I

f you were waiting for

another laptop besides

the Dell G5 15 SE gaming laptop (go.

pcworld.com/g515) to feature AMD’s

new SmartShift technology (go.pcworld.

com/shft) this year—don’t hold your breath.

SmartShift, which can dynamically shift

performance resources between a Radeon

GPU and Ryzen CPU, is one of the highlights

of a new era for AMD-based laptops, led by

the impressive Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs. But

in a Twitter response asking where the other