PC World - USA 2020-07)

10 PCWorld JULY 2020

NEWS AMD VS. INTEL

is just as likely to bust out an Apple ARM-based

A-series as it is a sweet Ryzen 9 4900HS

MacBook Pro 17. Don’t get your hopes up yet.

the only option is Intel in Mac laptops.

Those rumors that Apple may be toying

with AMD CPUs may be true. But the company

The Acer Swift 3 with Ryzen 7 4700U hammers

all other U-class laptops despite its low price of

$800. However, if you don’t use HandBrake or do

3D modelling or any multi-core tasks, then Ryzen

4000’s advantage doesn’t matter.

Dell XPS 15 7590Core i9-9980HK

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700Uift 3

Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U

M14 DefaultSI Prestige

Core i7-10710U

MLaptop 3 15”icrosoft Surface

Ryzen 7 3580U

Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7-8565U

Dell XPS 13 9300 Default

Core i7-1065G

Acer SwCore i7-8565Uift 3

Acer SwCore i5-8250Uift 3

Acer Spin 5Core i5-1035G

Acer SwCore i5-1035G1ift 3

HP Spectre x360 13 2019

Core i7-8565U

HP Spectre x350 13 5t h Gen

Core i7-1065G

HandBrake 0.99 Encode

Seconds

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1, 595

3,

2,

3,

1,

3,

3,

3,

3,

4,

4,

4,

4,

HP Spectre x360 13 2019

Core i7-8565U

HP Spectre x350 13 5t h Gen

Core i7-1065G

Dell XPS 13 9300 Default

Core i7-1065G

Dell XPS 15 7590Core i9-9980HK

Acer SwCore i7-8565Uift 3

Acer Spin 5Core i7-8550U

Dell XPS 13 7390Core i7-10710U

Dell XPS 13 9380Core i7-8565U

Acer SwCore i5-8250Uift 3

Acer SwRyzen 7 4700Uift 3

M14 DefaultSI Prestige

Core i7-10710U

Acer SwCore i5-1035G1ift 3

MLaptop 3 15”icrosoft Surface

Ryzen 7 3580U

4K Video Battery Life

Minutes

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

971

603

758

568

956

571

637

543

517

490

471

464

445

Battery life on a laptop can be swayed by screen

quality and resolution, battery capacity, drivers,

and other factors just as much as the CPU.