Quote from: _MT_ on August 22, 2020, 10:35:23One could look at other laptops with that CPU to see if that theory has any traction. I don't have the time right now.
The only thing that comes to my mind is that the load might be GPU bound. In this department, it's apples and oranges. The AMD would end up paying for a much more powerful GPU. While the Intel would be slacking because the 620 is anemic.
Quote from: Padmakara on August 21, 2020, 17:35:15Except I'm talking about X13 and local tests. And they state, IIRC, 92 minutes for AMD and 163 for Intel. That's a huge difference. As I wrote, I would expect them to run with similar long term power limits and therefore to have similar run times under load. That assumes the load is power limited. If it's not, I would expect the AMD to win as it's generally more efficient under load. This really begs an explanation. The only thing that comes to my mind is that the load might be GPU bound. In this department, it's apples and oranges. The AMD would end up paying for a much more powerful GPU. While the Intel would be slacking because the 620 is anemic.
Looks like you know what you are talking but you are only partial right.
In load also they have similar run times, if you check this
next.lab501.ro/notebook/english-lenovo-ideapad-s540-13are-vs-13iml-amd-ryzen-7-4800u-vs-intel-core-i7-10710u/14
Will show you the lenovo ideapad 13are 4800u vs 13iml 10710u where the battery in load is better for the AMD at 25w 15 w and also 12.5w in all these 3 tdp tests. And the performance is 1.5-2x in favor of AMD.
Also this title should have never been published, is like for example I put a title which is meaningless "Renault 1.6i has twice the range (km) of a Ferrari ". The raw horse power of the Ferrari makes you drive only let's say 700km and not 1200km like a Renault. But you never compare a 1.6 liters engine with 5l.
Quote from: _MT_ on August 21, 2020, 16:28:54Looks like you know what you are talking but you are only partial right.Quote from: Padmakara on August 21, 2020, 13:53:53Problem is that that's not how it works. When you actually start using the performance, battery life will go south. Laptops only last when they do mostly nothing. That's true for both platforms. Funny thing is that we're still talking about a 14 nm chip. In higher load scenarios, I imagine the AMD might pull ahead. It's more efficient at load and it's more powerful if your workload can load more than four cores so it should be done faster and switch to a low power state sooner. If your laptop is doing mostly nothing, an hour might be worth it. It's not like you're actually utilizing the eight core processor. You have to decide for yourself.
In the article should have been mentioned that the AMD cpu has 8 cores and the Intel one has just 4 cores.
Also the Amd cpu has double the performance vs Intel and the integrated gpu tripple the performance vs intel gpu.
Double the performance for 1h less battery life I think is pretty awesome and everyone would want it!
Interestingly, the load run time is almost double for the Intel version. Which would suggest a much lower long term power limit. You'd expect them to have similar load run times and the AMD version to simply do more work.
Quote from: eclyps on August 21, 2020, 16:10:49It's not even clear cut. In low load scenarios (like watching a movie or web browsing), the name of the game is switching off everything you don't need. It doesn't matter that much what you have if you're not using it and it's off. Intel actually has a pretty sophisticated energy management and this is where it can earn points. Of course, not everything can easily be switched off. One problem being the fabric between cores. I'm not up to date on current techniques but I can imagine that arranging them into groups could help there. And under high loads, having more cores helps if the workload can utilize those cores. Generally speaking, efficiency goes down as frequency goes up (from a certain point). Having more cores with the same total power budget means that there is less power per core, meaning the core is running at a lower frequency and therefore it's probably more efficient. From what I have seen, Renoirs don't seem to benefit that much from extra power. So, having fewer cores and higher budget per core won't do you any favours.
Everyone is saying that it's not fair to compare battery life of 4 cores vs 8 and that we should compare 4 vs 4, but somehow it's fine to compare 4 vs 8 when we're taking about performance?
AMD's strategy for beating Intel at performance is to add more cores, not beat Intel at an individual core level. Tiger Lake should illustrate this even further. It's ok though, it has been an effective strategy so far and this is just one of the tradeoffs for all that multi-core performance. If you need that cpu power then an hour of battery life is probably an ok sacrifice.
Quote from: Padmakara on August 21, 2020, 13:53:53Problem is that that's not how it works. When you actually start using the performance, battery life will go south. Laptops only last when they do mostly nothing. That's true for both platforms. Funny thing is that we're still talking about a 14 nm chip. In higher load scenarios, I imagine the AMD might pull ahead. It's more efficient at load and it's more powerful if your workload can load more than four cores so it should be done faster and switch to a low power state sooner. If your laptop is doing mostly nothing, an hour might be worth it. It's not like you're actually utilizing the eight core processor. You have to decide for yourself.
In the article should have been mentioned that the AMD cpu has 8 cores and the Intel one has just 4 cores.
Also the Amd cpu has double the performance vs Intel and the integrated gpu tripple the performance vs intel gpu.
Double the performance for 1h less battery life I think is pretty awesome and everyone would want it!