Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Deep-Dive Testing

AMD's Ryzen AI 300 series of mobile processors has arrived and in this video Gordon goes deep into all of the testing versus comparable Intel, Qualcomm, and Mac equipped laptops.

Laptops tested:
Asus Zenbook S 16 UM5606 w/ AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
Asus Zenbook 14 OLED UX3405 w/ Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 w/ Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100

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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
1:07 Test laptop specs
7:04 Cinebench multithread results
10:11 Cinebench single thread results
12:48 Blender results
16:24 Handbrake results
18:55 Web browsing results
22:28 Office results
26:32 Excel results
28:47 Photoshop results
34:42 Lightroom Classic results
38:23 Topaz AI results
42:54 Gigapixel AI results
45:01 Premiere Pro results
52:24 3DMark TimeSpy results
55:05 3DMark Steel Nomad results
56:32 Cyberpunk 2077 results
58:34 Shadow of the Tomb Raider results
1:00:23 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege results
1:04:11 Battery life results
1:13:47 Final thoughts

#amd #laptop #review

[jonathanmarshall]

Thanks, Gordon! Glad to see you back.

[deansmits]

I kept thinking "Man, it's not much better then the Phoenix predecessor!", but then I realize it's in a lower tdp class

[torpedospurs]

The HX 370 is pretty impressive for being limited at 28W and running a pretty big OLED screen. It does need to buck up on that Procyon responsiveness in battery test though.

[mikehuston]

thumbs up to my man gordon. been following since the olden days. you are a machine!!

[photonboy]

AI/NPU chips need a killer app. Their sole benefit is POWER EFFICIENCY as your normal, modern GPU can do the same tasks. So these AI/NPU designs really need a software task that is frequently used. Microsoft's "Recall" was supposed to be a main use case but that's on hold for obvious reasons. The BATTERY life tests are interesting, but we'll have to see how this shakes out for most users. I DO think this will just become the new normal and that many applications will be optimized to use this.

[williammoore]

Excited to see these filter down to handhelds.

[docbrody]

Thanks for putting this together. Super helpful.

[johndoh]

This is what I expected from these low power laptop parts from AMD. And, HIGHLY impressive considering they couldn't get onto TSMC N3, so they're doing this with N4P which is an excellent node but STILL. I guess all of these products are on a similar node so it makes the competition about even.

So, low power, capable of 12 cores combined with graphics and an NPU all in a laptop part it's just highly impressive.

[deilusi]

I already bought R9 370. My work laptop died a week ago, so I needed replacement asap.
what I can tell you from my "hunting" for replacement. Ryzen ones tend to do much better on "power saving" profile.
intel like to ramp its power, with very small stuff, and goes instantly to idle. It annoys me, because it ramps fans for ~5-10 seconds, every time you load a link in browser. Keep in mind that my 155h experience was only in shop, but it seemeed to do same thing as my older intels.
asus zenbook with r9 370 sits right now on 42'C (with ~27'C ambient) with yt playing, which is mighty impressive. I keep the speedfan open, and it just does not go above 75, no matter what I do)
73:20 this test and battery reverses in games, as well, Ryzen gave me good fps per W (at least in satisfactory)

[vasudevmenon]

Checked the battery life, CB results and puget bench results quickly. Quite impressive job from AMD and perfect answer to 12c from Qualcomm.
Thank you Gordon for extended testing. One more thing i noticed is AMD chipset driver got an update yesterday and tried it on Zen 3 mobile CPU and it seems they have tweaked idle power consumption and battery life is good even with high performance power plan with 40 Wh battery

[budthecyborg]

38:40 The problem with AI benchmarks on CPU is that GPU is always an order of magnitude faster.
Supposedly the neural processors on these new chips are more power efficient, but if you're plugged into the wall then GPU productivity totally obsoletes the best dedicated AI processors on the consumer market.

[ole]

Great analysis on the battery life side.

[SyrFlora]

Awesome review, really like the methodology of battery test.. and how u explain regarding variable that affect the battery runtime like screen technology, size, battery size, etc

[niuben]

Is that Jason Moore Excel Recalc benchmark publicly available anywhere? I'm super interested in figuring out why Snapdragon X1E80100 lagged behind hx 370 by 10% on that test.

[blkspade]

It should be noted that the RDNA 3 media encoder supports AV1 and it works in Handbrake. Quicksync isn't the only accelerated option here.

[乾淨核能]

good job AMD, now just hope they don't delay this chip either.

[davidtuel]

Will this laptop (the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 & Radeon 890M model) be able to handle architecture and design 3d modelling and 3d rendering software such as AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, V-Ray and Lumion? Has anyone tried and how were the results?

[torpedospurs]

This category is the Big Ultrabook. Surface Laptop 15-inch, Vivobook S 16, LG Gram 16, Acer Swift Edge 16, Acer Swift Go 16, Macbook Air 15, etc, etc. And this one is arguably the best of the lot.

[renkehuang]

Hi, thanks so much for the detailed and comprehensive testing,
I would like some of your opinions on choosing a laptop for me,
I recently found a Mechrev 13900hx + 4080 laptop with a similar but slightly higher price to ASUS Tianxuan AI 9 HX 370 + 4070,
I am a 3D and graphic designer. I mainly use PS and other Adobe series, Stable Diffusion, Topaz AI and Blender, and occasionally Unity and Unreal. Which of the abovementioned better fits my task?
(edit: I have zero gaming demand on this laptop, if I do, I'll do it on my desktop; that's one of my concerns that the 4080 laptop is an overkill)

[mariusclaudiu]

Thanks for the review. X Elite it is for me!