AMD's MacBook Moment.

The AMD Ryzen Ai 9 HX 370 and Ryzen Ai 9 365 are meant to be some of the best laptop CPUs for battery life, real world performance and gaming. In this in-depth review we take two ASUS Zenbook S 16 laptops, one with each processor and put them up against the best thin and light laptops with the Apple M3, Intel Ultra 7 155H and Ryzen 7 8840HS.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Ryzen Ai 9 HX 370, Ryzen Ai 9 365 & Zen 5
1:10 - Sponsor Spot (Thermaltake)
1:40 - Zenbook S16 Specs
2:26 - Power Consumption & Efficiency Testing
3:11 - How we Tested - CPU Power Equivalency
3:50 - Temperature & Noise Testing
4:15 - Synthetic Performance Testing
6:03 - Real World Performance Testing
8:15 - Battery Life is.....?
9:39 - Performance on BATTERY
10:20 - Gaming Framerates on Thin & Lights
13:04 - Close to Perfect Except...

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Review unit provided free of charge by ASUS. This video is sponsored by Thermaltake. As per Hardware Canucks guidelines, no review direction was received from manufacturer. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

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[Djoki]

Large tech companies try and not shove the letters "AI" literally everywhere challenge impossible.

[Yusuf_K]

I’ve always thought stickers on laptops make them look worse.

[hassb]

Am I the only one that finds battery drain during sleep important for these thin and lights? Rarely do I find it covered in reviews

[gucky]

Do the letters "A" and "I" come with a price increase?

[thomaslusignan]

Can we mention the fact that your bar graphs are the clearest I've ever seen? The different colours for different brands combined with the greater vibrancy for the CPUs of interest make it super easy to understand at a glance. It also makes the sorting with the best CPU always on top super easy to follow, while most other channels you have to pause to read the fine print in the legend to figure out which is where.

Amazing work, may everyone else copy you!

[WillJackDo]

Wow, AMD actually one-upped themselves with the naming. I thought XFX RX 7900 XTX XXX Edition was terrible but AMD Ryzen Ai 9 HX 370/365 really takes the cake.

[andrewnitin]

Can't wait for handhelds with a variation of this chip... 🤗

[FoxxFire]

Can I say this, and this is absolutely genuine, THANK YOU Hardware Canucks for making this a nonsponsored (by the subject) video. Some other channels are making sponsored content of the new chips (and specifically in a new laptop), but this launch is too important for your initial videos to be sponsored. I honestly appreciate your work; it makes such a difference to the audience when the subject of such an important piece of tech is not sponsored

[grantsparks]

A note on the temperature chart at 3:54 logging from 0 to 170 Celsius really compressed the scale, unless you're using your laptop in the Arctic or on Mt. Doom.

Showing the scale from, say, 20c to 120c should show the actual working range of these processors, while better demonstrating how big of a leap 76 or 88, is over 95/100.

[Unicornpirate]

I don't care about laptops but would love to see this 890m in the Steamdeck 2. That will make for an awesome handheld gaming experience.

[gontary]

I think there's more to the graphics performance (or the lack of it) than the lack of power. The biggest issue is actually the memory bandwidth. All modern laptops are bandwidth constrained leaving a lot of perf on the table

[SvalbardSleeperDistrict]

I'd buy anything with AMD instead of Intel/Apple/Nvidia in it, and these look amazing, but the price tags...

[andrescarrasco]

The Asus g14 with these new chips are gonna be insane, my g14 2023 is already amazing, crazy performance, amazing battery life(well tuned with g-helper) amazing screen, AMD is on fire

[amithasan]

Despite having ‘AI’ in name, i really like how amd is trying to be more efficient with their chips!

[masteron]

mine with hx370 arrives today, very excited to try it out as it checks all the boxes for me.

[fakcofee]

Asus was first to get Snapdragon and showed the worst performance out of all Snapdragon laptops. Now they're the first to ship new AMD machines. We can't trust Asus that much

[samvieten_official]

Two things:
- 1.This chips are not the highest tier, they are available in 54W versions on other devices
- 2. As a "pro" user who uses a laptop around 8-9hours, 6 days a week, I DO NOT go productive on battery. no. most of the professional users got a laptop, so they can move, because they need to work in more than just one office. But normally the laptop is plugged in, I really don't care about batterylife... it's nice to have more, but no buying decision for any professional programmer, designer or artists that I know.
For the APUs:
Something nearly all the reviewers missing: It's a 28W APU, which can go up to 54 (in other systems), asus has restricted it here to 28 watts, because they wanted to go slim. But this thing has actually a loooot more performance if a manufacturer would use it the right way. Asus offers the lower priced new vivobook 14, 15 and 16 with a full 54w Ryzen 9 AI HX 370. So, that would be interesting.

[arondyte]

What about battery life on standby? How much battery does it drain while the lid is closed overnight?

[ssupriyanto]

at least Asus should put some quick buttons on the right side of that keyboard (like home, end, insert, pgup/pgdn, delete)

[romeozor]

title: "AMD's Macbook Moment."
first frame: 4 ungodly stickers on the body
yup, macbook moment right there boys