Introduction: Which Gaming Laptop Offers Better Value for Money?
There has been a longstanding belief that AMD laptops offer better value for money, but that's not always the case. For instance, consider the Mechrevo Jiaolong 16S equipped with the Ryzen 7 8845H, priced at only 6499 CNY, while the Mechrevo Aurora Pro, powered by the i5-13450HX, is priced at 6199 CNY. One features the Ryzen 7 8845H, which is among AMD's top-tier mobile processors, while the other boasts the entry-level product of Intel's 13th Gen i5 processors. Surprisingly, the price difference is only 300 CNY.
So, since the price difference isn't significant, how much of a difference in gaming performance can we expect between them? That's the purpose of this test.
Just to elaborate a bit, AMD's recently released Ryzen 8000 series mobile processors, codenamed Hawk Point, are essentially rebrands of the previous generation products, with the main improvement being in NPU AI capability. There aren't significant changes in core specifications.
For instance, take the commonly seen Ryzen 7 8845H and Ryzen 9 8945H, which are derived from the Ryzen 7 7840H and Ryzen 9 8940H respectively. There's no change in core count or frequency, and both still have 16MB of L3 cache.
Here are the detailed specifications for both laptops:
It's noticeable that apart from the CPU, the rest of the configurations have been pretty consistent, with the overall system performance peaking at 176W. Additionally, the Core version comes with a 1TB SSD, whereas the Ryzen version has a 512GB one.
