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Earlier on this month the technology giant Intel called a press briefing within which they wanted to discuss the issue that they believe they have discovered within laptops that use the Ryzen 4000 processors.
They had research that they presented to the gathered journalist which they believed could prove that laptops that had this particular processor would see a 48% performance drop when the laptop was unplugged from the mains.
Another claim that they made was that compared to other laptops out there, the 11th Gen Intel Core notebooks, were able to hold their performance levels, whether they were plugged in to the mains power or if they were unplugged.
These were not only benchmark tasks, but they were also tasks that you would carry out in the real world, on an every day basis. Some of these tasks included converting files from a Word Doc to a PDF and also using the Outlook Mail Merge service too.
It was claimed that every single test, but one, showed that the Intel 11th Generation Intel Core processors, had improved performance efficiency when running unplugged away from the mains, particularly when compared to the AMD Ryzen 4000.
You could say that the nature of these tests could question their validity. Especially since it was Intel themselves who performed the tests. They only used 8 laptops to gather this data, 4 of which were Intel and 4 of which were AMD. This is a relatively small sample, particularly when you consider that they are benchmark tests, which could also then have an impact on the results that were achieved.
There have been some independent replica tests that have been carried out in order to find out whether the same results as Intel could be found. Whilst it seems that there is some truth in what they are saying, in the most part their claims should be taken with a pinch of salt. Rather than being a complete success for Intel, perhaps it is something that needs to be looked into further before we can guarantee that the results are accurate.
One point that was raised after the claims by Intel was that every single laptop, no matter the brand is likely to see a dip in the performance when they are unplugged from the mains because they are not using this high power mode and instead are relying on the internal battery and power source that comes with the laptop.
