AMD Ryzen AI 400 is built on TSMC 4nm and Panther Lake is on Intel's 18A so Intel is literally a generation ahead for this product cycle and wins hands down...
But is the GPU good for anything? I'm used to Intel being completely crap and AMD actually being able to run games if you can live without 8k and 400 fps.
But that's bad in my book. I'm happy with 720p on low detail once in a while if it's a laptop. What I remember is Intel GPUS being unable to do even that.
If they caught up with AMD iGPUs, that's great. I don't do desktop replacement laptops, I prefer the ones I can hold in one hand, the dGPU is in my desktop.
> What I remember is Intel GPUS being unable to do even that.
Maybe in the days of HD graphics cards... I've got a Tiger Lake chipset and the Xe iGPU outperforms the laptop 3050 dGPU in actual games (due to having access to waaaaaay more RAM).
During the previous chip crisis when covid and crypto were waning I needed a new desktop. Damned if I was going to buy a discrete video card at those prices so I went AMD integrated graphics. Didn't even stop to look at Intel.
(For the record said desktop has a discrete GPU now, but I bought it like 2 years after I built the desktop.)
Dunno, AMD (and ATI) had a poor reputation for years and only rehabbed it when they released the Zen architecture in 2017. Even then it took a few generations to be seen as better than Intel.
Intel has had a positive reputation the vast majority of the time from 1990 up to now, with only the last few years being bad.
For integrated GPUs? Both sides were crap until Zen. I just didn't notice Intel caught up.
> from 1990 up to now
For CPUs they're fortunately still playing catch up with each other. You remember when AMD released Zen, but do you remember when Intel released the Core stuff and how crap Pentium 4 / Netburst was right before that?
Since this is blowing up, gonna plug my opencode/claude-code plugin that allows you to annotate LLMs plans like a Google doc with strikethroughs, comments, etc. and loop with your agent until you're happy with the plan.
Ethernet tethering with a USB-C adapter from my OnePlus 13 saved my ass last weekend as I had to restore a Proxmox backup of my OPNSense VM from a remote PBS, and obviously without it I didn't have normal internet connection at home.
Fantastic stuff. I wasn't sure if I'd have to set a static IP on my proxmox box in a predefined subnet, but nope Android spins up a DHCP server and everything is basically plug-n-play
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