20 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2021NEWS AMD’S LAPTOP RESURGENCE CONTINUES
4800U as well as the Core i7-1165G7. Here,
the metric is PCMark’s productivity apps,
though there’s sharp gains in Excel and
PCMark 10, two of the more intensive apps
within the Microsoft office suite.
In gaming, though, AMD had a chance to
finish Intel off—and really didn’t. The 3DMarkFire Strike
Physics scores
are certainly
impressive, but
AMD didn’t
actually provide
any benchmark
scores for
games in
metrics
provided to
reporters.YES, SOME RYZEN 5000
MOBILE PROCESSORS
ARE ZEN 2
Early rumors pegged some of the new Ryzen
5000 Mobile processors as using older
“Zen 2” cores as opposed to the latest Zen