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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fishingbait15 - Friday, October 22, 2021 - link
Why shouldn't Huawei shamelessly copy Apple when Apple has been shamelessly copying Samsung for going on 10 years? Apple Watch? Samsung did it first. AirPods? Again, Samsung first. Apple invented the modern tablet, true, but the iPad Pro concept (oversized tablet with stylus and emphasis on detachable keyboard and multitasking in the OS) was done by the Samsung Galaxy Pro first. And again, Apple invented the iPhone, but every iPhone since 2011 has been a ripoff of the Samsung Galaxy line. Apple even copied the curved screen. Except that where Samsung actually had apps to take advantage of the curve, Apple merely copied the form without the function. And while Apple didn't copy Samsung with the Apple TV, Amazon and Google had their truly smart TV boxes first.Amazing how you guys never acknowledge Apple's blatant copying. Especially since even the Apple blogs acknowledge that Apple's latest Macs reject Jony Ive's minimalist philosophy in favor of designs more similar to what Dell and HP are doing.
vladx - Saturday, October 23, 2021 - link
Brainwashing tends to do that you.Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
'Apple invented the iPhone, but'jcc5169 - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
Did you check them for spyware?Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
Which spyware? OS? Black box CPUs within CPUs? Hidden stuff in other chips? Things added by various entities surreptitiously after the product leaves the factory in a box?Everything has spyware. Even the top-level internal use only stuff has it. It's just that those at the highest levels know about it (full documentation). Heads of state are surveilled by the agencies that ostensibly work for them, for instance.
Ruimanalmeida - Friday, October 22, 2021 - link
Those reading these comments could be interested on this review: https://www.notebookcheck.com/Huawei-MateBook-16-A...High reflective display...problematic on the move.
crunch418 - Monday, April 25, 2022 - link
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