Quote from: madpear on May 19, 2020, 16:54:45
This benchmark seems to be clearly from a test sample only. It is operating at 3.0GHz base clock, but the final 4900H will run at 3.3GHz base clock.
While Dell 'could' theoretically nerf their own laptop CPU by 10%, that would make no sense at all. I'm sure they will have sufficient cooling to run it at its actual stock base speed.
Dell doesn't have a good track record with cooling in general, or implementing AMD hw into a laptop.
In fact, previous Dell attempts were INTENTIONALLY nerfed to underperform because they paired earlier Zen mobile with single-channel RAM, low quality screens, slower performing SSD's and worse cooling - but still charged same or MORE money as much better equipped Intel versions.
Don't underestimate Dell's ability to nerf AMD's hw.
I'm not encouraged by this due to the fact that 4900H in early testing didn't show good performance (it was underperforming compared to 4800H), however, at the time I thought this was because it was an early engineering sample.
Its possible Dell has an adequate cooling in the laptop, but applied the thermal paste incorrectly (which would result in the CPU throttling and also hamper the GPU performance).
Or its possible Dell didn't give the laptop adequate cooling because they couldn't be bothered. It was mentioned before that Dell is 'experimenting' with AMD Zen 2 and Navi.
Either way, I certainly hope you are correct and that we will see better results when the unit is released (but its almost release date, so I'm a bit skeptical).