Nvidia RTX 3500 Ada performance debut: HP ZBook Fury 16 G11 workstation review

[Redaktion]

The ZBook Fury 16 series has been updated with new Raptor Lake-HX processor options for faster performance. The difference, however, is smaller than we would like to be mostly unnoticeable for most scenarios.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-RTX-3500-Ada-performance-debut-HP-ZBook-Fury-16-G11-workstation-review.870630.0.html

[Ivy]

Not many desktop motherbords have 4 m.2 slots.

[RobertJ]

The shameful NB team has banned NikoB, just like Putin is destroying the ability to watch YouTube in Russia. The NB team is as totalitarian in its mentality as Putin. Two of a kind. They quietly and shamefully put a filter on NikoB in nicknames and think that, like the stupid Putinists, they will stop the truth and freedom of information. Stupid people on both sides of the border...

If you were banned then why are you whining like a child and begging in tears to let you back. Grow some balls and either leave or learn to behave.

[Real NikoB ()]

no Meteor Lake options

And it is not necessary, because it was previously proven that Meteor Lake scales poorly with increasing TDP, because it is "sharpened" for low TDP, as well as Zen5 Strix Point 100% loses to Zen4 HX series on high tdp levels.

Neither Meteor Lake - (nor even more so the miserable Lunar Lake for housewives with a miserable 32 GB of soldered memory), nor Zen5 Strix Point were never intended and are not suitable as SoC for workstations and HEDT platforms. Therefore, the author should remove this nonsense from the wishes and especially the "minus" of the series.

Now to the main thing, to the obvious shortcomings:
1. The author was once again too lazy to check the presence of FRL6 mode in HDMI 2.1. The editors should instruct all authors to explicitly write its support or 48 Gbps BASED ON THE RESULTS OF THE TEST, AND NOT THE MANUFACTURER'S DECLARATION.
2. The screen, although it has the desired correct resolution of 16:10 4k and a good response time for IPS, although 120Hz (the response should not exceed 1/120 sec) is certainly not there, but the color rendering for an obvious professional series is depressing - only a shameful (for the pro class) 86% Adobe RGB. Moreover, the contrast is clearly insufficient - only 1000:1, instead of the desired 1500:1+.
3. Shameful tuning of the memory controller from HP for the HX series from Intel. Despite the fact that 5600 modules are installed (5600x16 = 89.6 GB / s), the efficiency of the memory controller is a shameful 65% for the HX series - 58-59 GB / s on average. 4. MiniDP is clearly brought out - why not 2.0+/UHBR20, but a shameful antique 1.4? Intel datasheets indicate such a possibility for the HX series for igpu, in the presence of the necessary retimers, which have long been on sale.
5. It is obvious that the ports for the professional series are not well located, because there is a lot of empty space on the left, but for some reason there are no 2 additional 10-20Gbps USB-a. The RJ45 port is shameful in its speed for 2024, especially in the professional segment - why not 5-10Gbps, HP, especially for that kind of money?
6. There is no optical SPDIF port for galvanic isolation of the sound output from the internal power circuits, to high-quality external DACs / headphone and speaker amplifiers. 7. The SD reader is monstrously slow even by the standards of consumer series, and by the standards of the professional class, there should be 2 slots - for UHS-3 and for SD Express (since this version is not compatible with anything except itself, at the full speed of each version, limiting the speed in other versions to a shameful 104 MB / s).
8. The latency of the system response is monstrous according to DPC LatencyMon. For professional work with sound in real-time, this series is 100% unsuitable out of the box from the factory and it is unlikely that it will be possible to bring the latency to an acceptable 10-20 ms.

As a result, we have a laptop that is not worth its money, definitely, if we evaluate its pure performance in long-term load in PL1 mode. HP, where is the same version with 7945HX, which is at least 45% faster at the same 70 W? How other obvious shortcomings sharply reduce the benefit of purchasing as a professional mobile solution.

It's up to the buyers  - to decide whether it's worth $3000+...