Quote from: _MT_ on June 30, 2020, 16:46:49
Quote from: IonBlade on June 30, 2020, 15:56:53
1) How is the battery life when gaming? I see the load test shows 116 minutes, but is that a purely CPU load, or CPU + GPU? (Power draw numbers weren't listed for Witcher 3, so I believe that load test may just be CPU load). I'm hoping the machine can get 90-120 minutes while running a modern game at moderate brightness.
Do realize that the power draw numbers are at the wall. Meaning while plugged-in. At least I believe so. Once you unplug a laptop, things can significantly change. When laptops have a relative long run time under load, it tends to be because they significantly restrict performance. With a 51 Wh battery, your average draw is going to be about 25 W, not 40 W. There is no way you can draw an average of 40 W for almost two hours from a 51 Wh battery. Which is, obviously, going to impact frame rates. Something to bear in mind.
That makes a lot of sense; I hadn't considered that.
I wouldn't even mind it lasting just an hour as long as I could set the various control panels to a "max performance / minimum battery" setting to get the same performance as the 4500U benchmark videos I've seen on Youtube for dozens of games, but I'm not even sure that the various power options give that level of control to make battery performance equal to wall performance.
In short, I haven't seen anything that says "This is the kind of performance you should expect to be able to get on battery specifically (as opposed to all the videos that show gaming performance is tweakable to 30+ FPS powered by the wall), and here is the battery life we got when set to whatever res / detail settings / power management options in the HP management tool and / or AMD control panel were needed to hit 30FPS in modern games."
It's also possible that what I'm looking for doesn't even exist yet. Right now, I have to use a Surface Go with LTE to stream games from my gaming desktop for treadmill use, but that leaves me with periods where 4G is congested and suddenly mid walk I have no entertainment, or where I hit my data cap. Was really hoping Ryzen 4000 has finally enabled a 2-in-one or tablet that is a few lb, fits on the tablet lip of a treadmill, can get 1.5 - 2 hours running modern games at at least 30 FPS, is 10 inches or more so I can actually make out what's happening while my head is bouncing around walking, and doesn't throttle when in tablet mode.