The Huawei MateBook 16 Review, Powered by AMD Ryzen 7 5800H: Ecosystem Plus
by Dr. Ian Cutress on October 20, 2021 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
- AMD
- Huawei
- Matebook
- Ryzen
- Zen 3
- MateBook 16
- Huawei Share
- Ryzen 7 5800H
System Performance: Balanced and Performance
The design of the MateBook 16 puts it in a smaller sub-section of the market. It’s a laptop designed to be big, but portable, so it has a strong 45 W CPU inside, albeit tuned down to 35 W, and no discrete GPU. That means we’re between a rock and a hard place – it has more performance and sustained performance than anything built with 15 W processors, such as the U-series, but compared to other laptops its size, which have big cooling and discrete graphics, it cannot sustain the high turbos that the others can. The upside is battery life in comparison.
So the MateBook has to play to its strengths, and those involve using the Zen 3 architecture up to 4.7 GHz for strong single-threaded performance, and then pushing all eight cores and sixteen threads when needed. Combine that with strong integrated graphics in Vega 8 (it’s still not RDNA 2 quite yet) and a fast SSD, and it should push through faster than a U-series without the bulk of a gaming laptop.
The Performance mode had little-to-no effect on any of our single thread metrics, however there was a good 4-9% gain in multi-threaded workloads. The longer the workload, the bigger the improvement. In comparison to other processors tested, it carves through the 15 W options, and against the 11th Gen Core-HK hardware it falls behind on general tests that can’t push the frequency or power, but for the traditional tests AMD does well on, it can beat what Intel has to offer.
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Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
640K ought to be enough for anybody.Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
'I'm amazed companies keep pushing laptops with 512GB SDDs and pretend they are not crap. 1 TB of storage is the absolute minimum any new pc or laptop should have if you don't want to buy a second SSD in a few months.'Agreed. Companies think they can be Apple.
Alistair - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
Won't buy anything from Huawei again. They are basically the Chinese military and are heavily connected to top leadership in China. They abducted two innocent Canadian citizens for 3 years and mistreated them. My current Huawei phone will be the last product I ever buy from them, that's for sure. Don't support evil.abufrejoval - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
Let's not forget that without top military connections, Silicon Valley would not have happened.I couldn't really stop buying hardware from a country run by a narcicistic would-be dictator either, nor are there many ways around a company from that country, which now seems quite more ready to "do evil".
Since I was born in the city where Konrad Zuse invented the programmable computer to help Adolf win The War, I just hope that sooner or later the other millions or billion citizen come to their senses without civil or even less civil war.
Alistair - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
China today, we are talking about a company right now, a government, right now, 2021. You can buy products from other brands like Samsung, or Adata, Asus, or Acer.Oxford Guy - Sunday, October 24, 2021 - link
Glenn Greenwald, in his 'collapsing empire' piece at Salon, said the US is the world's largest dealer of arms.Last time I checked, arms are used to rob people of theirs.
Alistair - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
Also you should wake up, suggesting China is comparable to any modern country is just ignorant. Taiwan, Korea, and Japan are the major modern Asian countries. Not China, especially politically.TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
The canadian government regularly turned a blind eye to the abuse/murder of natives by the RCMP. Hope you dont buy anything canadian either eh!Alistair - Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - link
That is just anti Canada nonsense.sonny73n - Thursday, October 21, 2021 - link
You must be one of them racist and prejudice KKK in the US. I don't ever hear any Chinese slander you people but somehow you people keep spewing shit everyday. Chinese people in general are much more decent than you scumbag.Yea in China some company is state sponsored but in your country, big corps sponsor the state. You know what does that mean, don't you?