With Lenovo Legion 5 the trend continues that the Intel version of the laptop gets stronger versions of Nvidia dGPUs and less options like for screen refresh rate than the AMD counterpart. The AMD version scores near double the battery life though according to the spec sheet. (via
Computerbase)
I wonder when Nvidia is going to step in to avoid its high end mobile dGPUs being associated with all the (both performance and battery life wise) worse laptop versions across the board. This can't be in Nvidia's interest as it only invites a stronger return of AMD's dGPUs in the now leading laptops at some point.
It is if they can lock down AMD as not appearing to be a true performance manufacturer, AMD's success in gaming laptops gives them a larger mouth in the arena and more ears listening. We haven't really seen any implementation of mobile Navi, would a watered down 5700 with its 7nm usage put screws to the 2060 and 2070 when you have a low power cap? Not sure personally needs a lot of power to get competitive on the desktop. But could it be more efficient on the low end, does Nvidia possibly have a higher peak efficiency, where AMD has a lower but can push it higher to catch up? May never know because Intel and Nvidia have kept people from even thinking about AMD. Hell Nvidia as part of that big Nvidia experience thing they got in hot water for was actually trying to ban people from using an AMD CPU in anything "Gaming" and that they should be limited to Nvidia video cards and Intel CPU's. Going as far to basically buy rights for intents and purposes to product lines like RoG (Asus was one of the companies to create a line specifically for AMD under this policy).
Point I may have gone a little off topic for it is that if Nvidia can keep AMD out of Gaming even at the cost of a few frames then its a win. Where AMD stumbles here though, is that Intel is limited by thermals and not Silicon too much. Where AMD for the most part is silicon limited, which means that Intel only needs one extreme cooling solution on a laptop (supersized 5 fan solution desktop replacement 12lb beast) to ratchet things up to stay ahead here. For the most part a 4900h and a 9900 are a wash performance wise anyways, so its not a hard accomplishment to keep a crown here. As long as Intel has the best performing Laptop CPU "Halo", Nvidia loses no cred on the performance of their GPU's, best mGPU's for best CPU's. Who cares if any where down the line a laptop might see better performance with AMD CPU, the options aren't there because people aren't taking a chance. The G14 is the best case scenario that AMD can come up with in this setup. They get a near thin and light laptop that punches like 3 weight classes above its belt even with a slimmed 2060, well built, and well priced.