The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has focused on rumors that laptops have somehow been losing performance in recent weeks. It’s not a scourge, but a simple drop in performance of the same laptop bought a few months ago and now. However, he found that the problem was a bit more complicated. In a simple game performance test, a 15 ″ game set from Asus with a Ryzen 9 5900HX and a mobile Radeon RX 6800M is slower than a 15 ″ game set from Gigabyte with an Intel Core i7-11800H with a GeForce RTX 3080. AMD’s hardware might appear to be simply slower than Intel’s combination with Nvidia. But only until the test author swapped memories in both sets:
Then in the game tests the exact opposite result came out. The line-up ended with Intel Core and Nvidia GeForce. How were the memories different? In both sets, two two-channel modules from Samsung with the same timing and the same capacity were used. The only difference behind the significant differences in gaming performance is that the modules originally installed with the AMD processor are single-sided and the modules originally installed with the Intel processor are double-sided.
A similar problem, specifically why Asus is installing a laptop with AMD top-end hardware with such unsuitable memories, was addressed a few weeks earlier by Jarrod’sTech YouTube channel. Asus received the answer that there were supply problems behind it. All that remains is to add that gaming notebooks with Intel’s high-end processors probably do not have a problem with memory supply, as faster double-sided memory can still be found in them.
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