The Huawei MateBook 16 Review, Powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H: Ecosystem Plus
by Dr. Ian Cutress on October 20, 2021 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
- AMD
- Huawei
- Matebook
- Ryzen
- Zen 3
- MateBook 16
- Huawei Share
- Ryzen 7 5800H
System Performance: Balanced and Performance
The design of the MateBook 16 puts it in a smaller sub-section of the market. It’s a laptop designed to be big, but portable, so it has a strong 45 W CPU inside, albeit tuned down to 35 W, and no discrete GPU. That means we’re between a rock and a hard place – it has more performance and sustained performance than anything built with 15 W processors, such as the U-series, but compared to other laptops its size, which have big cooling and discrete graphics, it cannot sustain the high turbos that the others can. The upside is battery life in comparison.
So the MateBook has to play to its strengths, and those involve using the Zen 3 architecture up to 4.7 GHz for strong single-threaded performance, and then pushing all eight cores and sixteen threads when needed. Combine that with strong integrated graphics in Vega 8 (it’s still not RDNA 2 quite yet) and a fast SSD, and it should push through faster than a U-series without the bulk of a gaming laptop.
The Performance mode had little-to-no effect on any of our single thread metrics, however there was a good 4-9% gain in multi-threaded workloads. The longer the workload, the bigger the improvement. In comparison to other processors tested, it carves through the 15 W options, and against the 11th Gen Core-HK hardware it falls behind on general tests that can’t push the frequency or power, but for the traditional tests AMD does well on, it can beat what Intel has to offer.
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Alistair - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
kind of funny, the Chinese government is acting criminally, and you just scream racism if it is criticized, you know China is a country right? a government? not a raceshabby - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
Blame Canada!fishingbait15 - Friday, October 22, 2021 - link
Sure, what Canada and the US did in the 1800s is comparable to what China (and Cuba, Viet Nam, North Korea, Venezuela) are doing today. Makes a ton of sense.Alistair - Friday, October 22, 2021 - link
Western Canada is the size of all of Europe. In fact just BC is larger than France and Germany combined. There were only a few thousand first nations people in all of BC (in the stone age, without the wheel) and they were all treated well and given their own reserves. Nobody fought wars or attacked them. You can't connect one aborigial exerience thousands of kilometres away with Canada. Canada has been free from war for 200 years, longer than any other country.Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
Canada, interestingly, gets a free pass for its deportations. For instance, a man risked his life greatly, coming through Greenland and the Canadian arctic — only to be promptly bundled back to his home country.Is this happens in the US, it apparently involves heartlessness and other psychological failures.
sonny73n - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
@alistairGo to hell with your politics bs. Your country isn't at war with China. So the only reason you hate China so much is because you're a god damn racist. Huawei products are available in the US. You can support the real evil Google, Apple or FB. I don't care. The only thing I mind is your snake tongue. You're doing evil but saying others do. You gotta be a wolf in sheep clothing.
And if those two Canadians aren't real spies, why did the Canadian spy agency welcomed them back? Check the tweet for yourself.
sonny73n - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
***Huawei products are NOT even available in the USAlistair - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
You are Exhibit A for why no one should buy Huawei products. Corrupt company. Got the Chinese government to abduct innocent people.DominionSeraph - Friday, October 22, 2021 - link
You realize it was in response to Canada abducting an innocent Chinese woman first, right? And not even for your own racist agenda, you were willing racists by proxy for the US.Alistair - Friday, October 22, 2021 - link
People who call others racist are usually the most racist, and that would you be you. Canada abducted no one. She was charged with an actual crime, unlike the Canadians. She was given trial, was living in her 5 million dollar mansion. Educate yourself.