Intel, not AMD, could be the secret to launching ordinary new generation PCs

Intel is an empire after its peak and is assaulted on all sides. Just like Paul “Muad’dib” atreids of Dune A monologue on the many future he has perceived, there is “a narrow path” for the manufacturer of besieged fleas. The path to follow could be with a new game game on its new generation chips. His desktop processors can obtain an upgrade centered on players, but the real surprise can be the way it could win on a market in which it has not yet really competed: portable games.

Portable games need to make things happen. It is a thought that I could not shake as soon as I saw reference figures disclosed for the next MSI Claw A8. The pocket computer is a series of the MSI Claw 7 less than stellar and the big, but incredibly powerful, MSI Claw 8 AI +. Compared to the last two Intel pocket computers, the A8 operates on the next AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme. This chip is an APU, alias an accelerated processing unit, which is a processor that contains graphic processing capacities. AMD announced for the first time its flagship chip for pocket computers in January of this year. We have not yet got our hands on any device with the capabilities of the chip in many months since then.

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Disclosed references arising from Chinese language social media can explain why we have not seen too much on the last AMD chip. The CLAW 8 AI + used an Intel Core Ultra 258V processor designed for light PCs, which meant that it was supporting the Arc 140V 140V graphic capacities. These landmarks show that Intel and AMD fleas are almost equal in games like FAR CRAURE 6 And Hitman 3. The Ryzen Z2 Extreme obtains approximately five more images per second in titles like Assassin’s Creed Shadows And Monster Hunter Wilds. Of course, the AMD chip seems better than that of Intel during this power, but it is not much better since the 258V was not explicitly built by thinking of this factor of form.

More disclosed benchmarks of the CLAW A8 MSI do not give AMD much more than a soap box to boast its capacities. YouTuber Eta Prime showed how the extreme Ryzen Z2 compares to the extreme Z1 of the latest generation of almost two years ago. The Z2 runs on the last microchitecture of Zen 5 chip 5 of the manufacturer of Paples and has ostensibly more hearts on the RDNA 3.5 cores updated to produce better graphic capacities. Although it does much better in synthetic references than the previous generation, in games like Cyberpunk 2077 And Shadow of the Tomb Raider, The Extreme Z2 has shown only an average of four or five images per second higher than the extreme Z1. If you already have a pocket computer with the old flagship product, it will be difficult to justify the drop even more money on a updated device. Rumors suggest that today’s high -end pocket computers could be very expensive.

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The last of AMD can be disappointing for some, but Intel can actually have a chance to beat its main competitor in its own game. On the one hand, the Director General of Intel of the Customer and Technical Marketing – Robert Hallock – confirmed by the MAG (RIP) of the laptop (RIP) which plans to make portable flea. These intel tokens mentioned above, which are part of the Lac Lunar processors’ family, could become even more capable with the next generation (Coded Panther Lake). The leaks of an expedition manifesto published last week by Leaker X86deadandback (via PCGamer) indicate that the next generation of Intel mobile fleas will have 50% more of its graphic hearts. The latest rumors suggest that Intel will also upgrade its graphic nuclei from Xe2 to Xe3.

We do not know what it means for the good of practice. No more hearts with better rendering capacities do not talk about the architecture of the chip. If it can combine better graphic capacities with better capacity for IA improvement than the current XESS 2, the next Intel mobile chips could be a much larger boon for Pocket Computers than AMD. The only remaining question is whether we will see a pocket computer with an “Intel Inside” sticker radiating like a happy child on the side of the device. We know that the Lenovo Legion Go 2, alongside Asus Rog Xbox Ally X, will house the Extreme Z2. The other persistent problem is that the Valve steamos, which are – for time – a better option for pocket computers than Windows, only supports the Ryzen Z series of APUS of AMD, not Intel. There are a lot of mountains to climb before “Team Blue” can make a statement, and it is better to make it a little before AMD could catch up.