8 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2021NEWS BEST OF CES 2021
That should confirm the confidence laptop
makers have in AMD’s Ryzen 5000 Mobile (go.
pcworld.com/rmob), based on the award-
winning Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 desktop
chip. While we don’t have independent
testing yet, we expect it to dominate in multi-
core performance and take
the lead in single-core
performance. —Gordon
Mah UngINTEL TIGER
LAKE H
Intel’s 11th-gen Tiger Lake
CPU has been a legitimate
ray of light in a Ryzen-
clouded sky. Featuring
improved efficiency, high
clocks, and leading
integrated graphics, we’d
honestly say Tiger Lake was
the best CPU for whatpeople do in a small laptop.
With Tiger Lake H35, we think Intel may
have found a sweet spot, promising up to
5GHz clock speeds in laptops that aren’t quite
thin-and-light but weigh far less than your
typical gaming laptop. It probably won’t win
any races with AMD’s new Ryzen 5000, but it’s
likely to offer lots of speed for what most
people do. —Gordon Mah UngNVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 3060
Among the many goodies Nvidia announced
at CES, the $329 GeForce RTX 3060 desktop
graphics card (go.pcworld.com/329g)
deserves to be highlighted because it gives
mainstream gamers a next-gen graphics
option that doesn’t require a second
mortgage (although spiking custom card