![]() This is still $500 less than the top MacBook Pro, with the same amount of memory and storage. This configuration is more expensive, starting at $2,800 with 512GB of storage or $3,000 with 1TB. Of course, the 4070 improves its gaming capabilities, too. Josh Goldman/CNETįor those with more challenging content-creation needs, the Ultra can be configured with a faster Core i9 processor, 32GB of RAM and a midrange 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 for faster graphics performance. The 16-inch AMOLED display is certainly a highlight. (You can see more of our test results at the end of this review.) The latest 16-inch MacBook Pro ran for an incredible 24 hours and 34 minutes, benefitting from Apple making both its hardware and software. Reaching 10 hours and 34 minutes on our streaming video test, the Samsung lasted pretty long considering its higher-performance components and AMOLED display, which draw more power than those designed to sip power. However, there is one place the Ultra (or any other Windows laptop) can't keep up with the MacBook Pro: battery life. The processing performance is enough to keep up with its competition, while the entry-level graphics chip gives the Ultra a boost to smoothly handle undemanding content creation and gaming. The Ultra I tested is $2,400 and doubles the storage of the base model from 512GB to 1TB but is otherwise the same: 13th-gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of memory and GeForce RTX 4050 discrete graphics. It's not available in Australia, but the UK price converts to AU$4,575. The Galaxy Book 3 Ultra (hereafter referred to as the Ultra) starts at $2,200 or £2,449 in the UK. Related content referenced in this article can be found below.Thunderbolt 4 USB-C (x2), HDMI 2.0, microSD card slot, USB-A 3.2, 3.5mm combo jack That may be important for those of you looking to simultaneously play and stream your games. On a final note, we conducted some game stream testing using OBS at 1080p (1920 × 1080) resolution and found that when games were forced to occupy threads only within the same core complex, minimum frame rates were considerably better for both processors, beating out even the Intel Core i9-9900K by almost 25% on average, and sitting comfortably above 60 frames per second on a more consistent basis. For latency-sensitive workloads such as gaming, you'll definitely want to keep that ratio at 1:1, but other workloads may prefer the additional memory bandwidth offered by faster system memory. A 1:1 ratio is maintained with system memory up to DDR4-3733, before it falls back to the older 2:1 ratio of previous generations. AMD suggests to keep the memory controller in a 1:1 ratio between it and the Infinity Fabric the underlying interconnect by which the processor as a whole communicates to other parts of the package. Zen 2 introduces a much stronger memory controller, now situated within the I/O chiplet of the package. While Intel may still have the single-threaded performance advantage here, thanks to those very high frequencies, a combination of faster system memory and future Windows patches from Microsoft will certainly help to close that gap. Even with DDR4-3200 system memory, it's a very strong showing for AMD. What happens when you take an already-strong floating-point unit design, and make it even stronger? Here's your answer. 'Zen 2' Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 9 Update (July 12, 2019)ĪMD's brand-new third-generation Ryzen processors have now been released, which means it's time to update these graphs once again.
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