Still searching for a fast laptop for video and photo editing, I am now focusing on displays over 1080p.
The two below have QHD at 165hz which is more useful for games than what I intend.
HP OMEN – Ryzen 9 | ACER NITRO – AN517-54 | |
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| Screen | 16.1 IPS QHD 165 Hz anti-glare | 17.3 (IPS LCD) QHD 165Hz |
| CPU | Ryzen™ 9 5900HX 3.3 – 4.6 GHz | Intel i7-11800 Octa core 2.40 – 4.6 GHz |
| RAM | 16GB 3200mhz | 16GB 3200mhz |
| SSD | 1 TB PCIe® NVMe™ | 512GB PCIe® NVMe™ |
| GFX | AMD Radeon™ RX 6600M (8 GB GDDR6) | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 6 GB |
| Audio by Bang & Olufsen | DTS | |
| GPU Boost Clock | Up to 1425 MHz Up to 95 W | |
| 1 USB Type-C® Thunderbolt 4 10Gbps (DisplayPort™ 1.4) 1 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps (HP Sleep and Charge) 2 SuperSpeed USB Type-A 5Gbps 1 HDMI 2.1 SD media card reader | Bluetooth 5.2 USB Type-C Thunderbolt 4 (DisplayPort™ 1.4) USB 3.2 Gen 2 (up to 10 Gbps) 1 HDMI 2.1 Intel® WiFi 6 – 2×2 Killer Ethernet E2500 port | |
| Power Supply Wattage | 230 W | 180 W |
We like the Nitro for the faster USB as transferring large data can be time-consuming. Both Laptops are on par for processing power and cores. And that both have space for adding extra storage. The power consumption is lower with the i7.
The Ryzen 9 is the faster processor, and the RTX 3060 is the better GFX, but both setups are very close on performance, and not much between them.
One thing I did not like about the OMEN was the 90-degree pointed corners, and feel that a slightly rounded curve would have dealt with that.
Intel Core i7 11800H vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
| Intel Core i7 | Family | AMD Ryzen 9 |
| 11 | Generation | 4 |
| Tiger Lake H | Architecture | Cezanne (Zen 3) |
| Mobile | Segment | Mobile |
| — | Predecessor | — |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Threads | 16 | 16 |
| Base Frequency | 1.9-2.3 GHz | 3.3 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.6 GHz | 4.6 GHz |
| Bus frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 19-23x | 33x |
| Bus Bandwidth | 8 GT/s | – |
| L1 Cache | 96K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 1280K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 24MB (shared) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | Yes |
The Intel Core i7-11800H and the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX have 2 memory channels. The intel supports the use of up to 128 gigabytes of DDR4-3200 RAM, but AMD only 64 gigabytes of RAM. In addition, the AMD processor also supports the LPDDR4-4266 main memory type.
Hands on
The motherboard manufacturer is Kamiq_TLS which has PCI-express 4 (16.0 GT/s), but it comes with PCIe Gen3 Nvme (Samsung PM991a MZVLQ512HBLU) PCIe Gen3.0 x4.
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