Intel vs AMD Laptops - FINALLY a Clear Winner?

Let's take two IDENTICAL laptops (the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro X) with the only difference being one has an Intel CPU while the other has an AMD Ryzen CPU. So in this video we do the ultimate AMD vs Intel comparison to see which is the best laptop for battery life, gaming performance and other benchmarks. Is there a winner right now in 2023?

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0:00 - Intel vs AMD Laptops
0:29 - What We're Testing
2:18 - Sponsor Spot
2:49 - Pricing (Intel vs AMD)
3:24 - Intel vs AMD Power & Temperatures
4:36 - Noise Levels
4:51 - Laptop Battery Life (Intel & Ryzen)
5:51 - Real-World Benchmarks
7:57 - 1080p Gaming Benchmarks
9:16 - And the WINNER IS…

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[disekjoumoer]

I have a Yoga slim 7 Pro with a 6800HS and integrated GPU at work and I must say, Lenovo has come a long way in product quality. It's simply an excellent daily driver. Good battery life, very light, nice screen, and very nice keyboard and Lenovo has stopped with all the junkware that they used to preinstall. I also noticed that the AMD ryzen processors also seem to have aged better than the same generation Intel CPUs.

[drishalballaney]

If possible can you please also take a look at ryzen 7xxx and 13th gen?

[eliasjimenezg]

Very interesting results. Usually AMD has an edge on power efficiency, but it is neat to see Intel catching up. Wonder why some other AMD laptops tend to get much better results - perhaps better optimization for the processor in those models?

[JacksonMokum]

I purchased this laptop (Yoga Slim 7 Pro X) with a AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS, 32gb RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Max-Q (4Gb, GDDR6) and Touchscreen.
Battery life isn’t great, but with the 100W Power Cord my 4-cell 70Wh battery gets charged very fast. Only real downside: no HDMI-port and no fingerprint sensor. Overall: I’m extremely happy, the laptop is very quiet and is relatively light. The screen is simply lovely and with the 32Gb RAM helps a lot when multi tasking. I chose the AMD over the Intel due to price. Plus, I never had an AMD-processor laptop before and I was just curious. Note: I actually considered the 2022 13” MacBook pro but I will probably get the 16” pro later this year and I chose the Lenovo as my ‘carry-on’ laptop.

[SimplerTrades]

Brilliant, my friend. I couldn't care about these laptops at all.

It's about the person talking.
1. No flashy intros
2. no loud music
3. no hyperbole
4. Immediately down to business.
5. Total business like, professional delivery, no drama - straight to facts and to the point.

99% of youtubers should pay you to learn how to present. You deserve many many more subscribers. MKBHD could learn a thing from you. Kudos!

[ericguizzetti]

I am really curious what the Intel 13 will be like? Any idea if you can use double-sided NVME in either of these?

[Smellslikegelfling]

What about comparing budget laptops? Does the CPU really make much difference in models that are under $500? I'm not looking for a video editing or gaming rig, just something for daily tasks.

[SeaNBlack]

the fact that AMD manage to keep up with an intel with much newer Architecture and more cores is insane. cant wait to see the R9 7000 Series

[TheHavocInferno]

Wish you'd done the benchmarks in Intelligent Mode (and Extreme Mode maybe only as a bonus). That's the target use case for these devices. Running them in extreme performance mode has too many drawbacks and isn't enabled out of the box anyway.

[alouisschafer]

To me it was a simple decision. AMD was cheaper, performs really well and is more efficient. Atleast it was the case with the 5500U and its competitors which I bought because of the aforementioned reasons.
Seems like Intel caught up this gen and prices are screwed either way.

[xmaverickhunterkx]

Pretty good, but still previous gen. I'm waiting to see what comes this year, as both companies look promising as well.

[stan.jk]

The AMD version is on sale at Costco for $1100. Surprised the Intel version has an HDMI port, you'd think it would be the other way around since AMD doesn't have thunderbolt.

[ksouvenir]

I bought my wife a Intel ThinkPad T14s and me the Ryzen edition, fan volume is terrible on the intel version, but fully feature customizable option selection and software bug stability support. The AMD side has lot more issue with some random software bug affect the laptop hardware, but is less fan noise and consumption 50 watt max, so the 65 watt charger has enough juice for it but not enough with the Intel CPU🤦‍♂.

[snajperSLO]

If you don't need TB... get the older AMD version (5000 H series) they are way more affordable and still a nice device to own and use!
My ASUS Vivobook was $900 (USD) with the 5800H, 16GB, 3050 and OLED... Have nothing to complain about (was looking at the Lenovo Slim 7 Pro - non X but was more expensive and found that a lot of users had keyboard issues).

[fredeso]

My burning question is how these laptops compare simply watching YouTube videos. I had a Lenovo AMD 4750U-based laptop. The problem was the inferior power management. I played around with the Windows 10 power slider and power management modes to no avail. I could get the AMD laptop to either be quiet, but permanently limited to about 1.7GHz (even single core), or the fans would spool up and it would be loud when decoding YouTube videos, drowning out the sound. The power management was bad. You had to switch modes every time you wanted to watch YouTube. My subsequent Lenovo Intel Tiger Lake laptop is much better. The Windows 10 power management slider essentially controls the maximum fan level. In "Better Battery" mode it is consistently quiet, yet spools up to max turbo frequency on single cores no problem. The Intel laptop is day to day useable, while the AMD was annoying. I'd really love to know how the two laptops compare in a YouTube test for loudness, especially with YouTube videos that use demanding codecs. Has AMD improved with the 6000 series at all? I came away with the impression that the 4000 series was unrefined. For laptops that spend much of their time in light use, it's better if Cinebench numbers are balanced with actual useability.

[allenllacer]

Which is better for programming? Intel core or Ryzen?

[thestype]

Unable seeing into Lenovos cards I think they choose their components and software adjustments to make them perform similar: While the Intel CPU is of a newer generation, its an i7 „only“ and not the max spec version i9-12900H. The power draw would be insane, also the performance gap. So they dont want to give their suppliers and customers not too much of a gap on the Notebook Brand experience.

[m.m.]

You should have tested more on these different power levels. If Hardware unboxed testing is true, the current AMD Chips have better multi-threaded performance under 35 W and the Intel chip over 35 W. So the AMD Chip has a different Power sweet spot, thus the different configuration by the manufacturer make sense. So it would be really nice to see battery life, Cinebench and maybe one representative game with the different power modes.

[jozsiolah]

I have an AMD QL-64 processor, 2.1 Ghz, 1800 mhz FSB. It had a speed limit problem, Cod 4 was running at very slow speed with 512 mb Ati. After taking out the 2 choppers with the rockets (located at the bus), the speed increased dramatically. I checked on Cpu -z, the FSB dropped to 1700 mhz, causing the cpu speed increase.

[raminMTL]

Clear recommendations at the end are appreciated. Great video