

On this and all charts to follow, we show the AMD chip in red, and the Intel chip in blue. Available on both AC (plug-in electricity) and DC (battery).īetter Performance: Default slider mode that slightly favors performance over battery life and is appropriate for users who want to trade off power for better performance of their apps. According to Microsoft documentation, they are:īest Performance: Favors performance over power and is targeted at users who want to trade off power for performance and responsiveness. Windows 10 offers four power performance states you can select when using. MSI’s Prestige 14 EVO features Intel’s 11th-gen Core i7-1185G7īoth laptops were running Windows 10 20H2 (Build 1904.867) and the latest drivers available. These two laptops were among the first out of the gate with their respective CPUs, so they are representative of what to expect. Think of laptops instead as pairings of a specific design to a specific CPU-in this case, Asus ZenBook with Ryzen, and MSI Prestige 14 with Core i7. Intel and AMD give laptop makers the CPUs, but everything else is specific to the vendor’s design for that system, from the display type and size, to the cooling design and the keyboard and the battery. It’s important to note that there’s almost no such thing as an apples-to-apples comparison with laptops. It features Intel’s four-core 11th-gen Core i7-1185G7, 16GB of LPDDR4X/4267, a PCIe 4.0 512GB SSD, a 52-watt hour battery, and a 14-inch 1080p IPS-level screen, and it weighs 2.7 pounds. It features AMD’s eight-core Ryzen 7 5800U, 16GB of LPDDR4X/4267, a PCIe 3.0 1TB SSD, a 65-watt-hour battery, and a 13.3-inch 1080p OLED, and it weighs 2.6 pounds.
