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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Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
'You realize it was in response to Canada abducting an innocent Chinese woman first, right?'You don't realize the moral corruption of supporting such behavior, eh?
'Well, gee, Wally... since you ran over this grandma I'll just have to run over that one over there!'
Alistair - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
no one was abducted in Canada, if you can't understand that, no point in talkingOxford Guy - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
Subject change noted.Oxford Guy - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
Nevermind. Forum software doesn't have enough levels.Alistair - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
I don't hate China, lived in China, love China. Hate the Chinese government and how they attacked Canadians.vladx - Saturday, October 23, 2021 - link
And the "Biggest Liar" award goes to...Alistair - Monday, October 25, 2021 - link
I speak Chinese you idiot, went to university therezodiacfml - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
finally good competition to M1 Air, its time for discounts or upgrades to the Air soon.antoniogermano - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
I was hoping you would compare it to the M1 MacBooks (let's face it: Huawei is shamelessly copying everything made by Apple, these are MacBook clones in every way and kind of deserve to be compared to Macs), and then, later this year when you get M1 Pro and M1 Max, update the charts to include them.Wrs - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
How can you call this a MacBook clone? It weighs twice as much, runs a different OS, and just about every component is commodity and a generation behind.