You can be sure it will translate into gaming, tendentially I would expect a bigger difference in real world gaming. It makes me wonder if Intels Xe LP memory compression is much worse compared to Vega/Turing.
Listen. You are saying the Xe LP is so memory bandwidth bound that it scales nearly 100% with faster memory.
-Yet it manages to be 70% faster using the same conditions as the previous generation which is about equal to the increase in resources.
-Also the i7 is noticeably faster than i5. A device that is nearly 100% bandwidth bound cannot have a slightly smaller GPU noticeably slower - it should be pretty much identical.
-It's also contradictory to state its much worse in handling memory bandwidth yet still end up being 30-40% faster than Vega.
Intel's Gen 8 GPU had crappy memory compression techniques. Going from GT2 to GT3 gave you 5-10% gains. Another 5-10% if you went for the 28W version. That means even the GT2 version could benefit nicely from more bandwidth. When Gen 9 came, GT2 was bound far less, despite being faster. If Xe LP was so badly bound by BW that it scales nearly linearly, then it should be at best 10% faster than Vega.
Real gaming needs more CPU power which can be a problem when it runs into a thermal or power limit, the Asus ultrabook isn't doing good in this metric as we know.
First, not everything is about thermals. I repeated many times that there are dozen knobs that manufacturers can adjust.
Second, Tigerlake further complicates this. The new boost can estimate the workload and set a different PL1
per application.
Third, the Swift has no thermal/power advantage.
Earlier this year I've reviewed the 13-inch Swift 3 ultraportable with Intel IceLake hardware, an interesting and fairly affordable portable laptop with a
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The ZenBook S is Asus's premium lineup of ultrabooks, and has been updated as of late-2020 with a brand-new product, code name ZenBook S UX393EA.
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HWInfo screenshot shows the Swift is pretty much 17W for all 4 games, while the Zenbook goes easily over 20W.
About the Swift:
In fact, it’s fairly far from it, with the GPU averaging frequencies of only .9 to 1 GHz in our gaming tests, down from the 1.30 GHz peak performance that the platform is theoretically capable of.
Zenbook:
and the GPU running at 1.1 to 1.25 GHz.
The graphs also show its over a thermally significant power period, so initial Turbo/thermal throttling doesn't apply.