As I feared, at the end we have a complete EPIC FAIL from AMD, according to the numbers in this review.
It was supposed to be the king of single-core performance. And the power efficiency king in the multi-threaded test, greatly outperforming the 7945HX in 1W performance.
We all see some kind of mess...
Is it deliberate suppression of energy efficiency, for the sake of sales of the 7x45 series, or a complete failure in the design of cores for "4/5nm"? I don't understand how this could happen.
I was expecting much better power efficiency at 45W PL1 compared to the 7945HX, and significantly faster single-threaded performance with a PL2 of around 70-80W.
I hope it's Asus who screwed up the design somehow... but if the same happens in other laptops, then this is AMD's failure.
The video part is even harder to evaluate against such a background, especially if the memory is worse than lpddr5 7500.
In general, it turns out that in the fall AMD will release Zen4 +, in which at least somehow fix the problems. Hope.
Well, for 2023 the king is 7945HX, but laptop manufacturers are dishonored in models with it, they don't use its 28 pci-e 5.0 lines in any way. I expected that 2-4 USB40 ports would be the minimum in the worst laptop with this SoC, but as we can see even in the top solutions there is no USB40, it's a shame, etc. and so on.
I don't understand why AMD made such a cool pci-e 5.0 controller with 28 free lines with such a slow memory controller - at least they made 4 channels, increasing the memory controller bus to 256GB (64x4). As a result, we would get a balanced solution that is really capable of pumping 28 pci-e 5.0 lines simultaneously and ensuring the operation of the TB5 x 2 analog for a future 4090 upgrade via an eGPU over the pci-e 3.0 x16 bus, through 4 x USB40 aggregation.
I'm even somehow not interested in trying to evaluate the neural network unit and igpu in 7940HS against the backdrop of such a shame AMD.
It's a pity reality shattered all hopes in 2023....