
In fact, a Ryzen 9 4900HS in a thin and light 3.5-pound gaming laptop matches much larger and much heavier laptops. You can see the chart below, where the light-blue bars show how poorly the previous 10th-gen Intel CPUs perform against Ryzen.

It’s actually good news that Intel has an 8-core that can compete with Ryzen 5000. This is not necessarily a loss for Intel. It scores a hair faster than, but is basically tied with, Intel’s new 11th-gen Core i9-11980HK chip. AMD’s Ryhas long been the monster of multi-core performance, and the Ryzen 9 5900HX doesn’t disappoint. Our first result comes from Maxon’s Cinebench R20, a popular 3D rendering benchmark that loves core and thread counts. MSI 11th gen Core i9-11980HK vs Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU performance The vast majority are 130-watt TGP or lower. Looking at high-end laptops, we know of only a single Ryzen 9-based laptop with a 155-watt TGP GeForce GPU in it. a 105-watt TGP laptop, it actually doesn’t matter if you can’t buy the one you want. When you’re considering a 155-watt TGP laptop vs. Ultimately every laptop has its own performance personality. Even if you could get the same TGP-rated GPU, you can’t divorce the GPU or CPU from the laptop. Nvidia has a wide menu of options for every GPU, making apples-to-apples comparisons very difficult. The TGP is the Nvidia spec for what the GPU’s maximum thermal budget is.

One important detail worth pointing out is the different Total Graphics Power (TGP) ratings for each laptop. an 11th-gen Core i7, and how much of a performance boost you get from an 11th-gen Core i9 in a 6-pound-plus thick laptop, versus that same CPU’s performance in a 4.5-pound laptop. Every laptop is different, but the performance of the 11th-gen Core i9 in the MSI GE76 Raider also gives us insight into the value of an 11th-gen Core i9 vs. With the MSI GE76 Raider and its 11th-gen Core i9-11980HK and GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop at a blistering 165 watts (it’s 155 watts out of the box), we have a better view into Tiger Lake H’s gaming prowess. With its GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, it’s hardly what we would consider a true gaming laptop. We then tested the 11th-gen Core i9-11980HK in an Intel reference laptop (essentially an MSI Creator Z16).
