Our first Ryzen 5 1600 laptop is 50 percent faster than the common Core i7-7700HQ

[Redaktion]

The Ryzen 5 APU is already available on desktops, but its implementation onto notebooks appears to have carried no major performance downgrades in the process.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Our-first-Ryzen-5-1600-laptop-is-50-percent-faster-than-the-common-Core-i7-7700HQ.281580.0.html

[BluJay614]

Okay, SOOOOOOOO many things wrong with this article. For one: the R5 1600 and R71700 are NOT APUs as they do not have a iGPU, nor are they mobile versions!!! In the laptop in question, ASUS uses a full DESKTOP grade CPU in a full AM4 socket. To sit there and call them two different things is disingenuous and misleading. The reason it may be a bit slower is because that TDP is rather high for a laptop, due to it being a full desktop vatiant.