In January 2021, AMD officially released the Zen 3 architecture Ryzen 5000 mobile processor, which upgraded the processor microarchitecture and optimized the front-end unit, cache structure and cache scheduler. Compared with the previous generation Zen 2 architecture has a 19% improvement in IPC performance, and the L3 cache capacity has doubled compared to the previous generation, up to 16MB.

The Ryzen 5000 desktop processor has achieved dazzling results through the Zen 3 architecture, and the mobile processor is not far behind. It can be seen from the current shortage situation that processors equipped with the Ryzen 5000 mobile processor The notebooks are all popular online products among similar products, and you have to make an appointment first if you want to buy them. The popularity of AMD processors also makes fans keep asking: When will the notebook with AU+A card be released?

Now it's here.

Compared with the first-generation RDNA architecture, the power consumption of RDNA 2 architecture is reduced by 43%, the performance is improved by 50%, and the energy consumption ratio is superior. It is very suitable for notebooks, which have strict requirements on energy efficiency ratio. . Under the condition of limited power consumption, the graphics performance of RDNA2 architecture is 77% higher than that of the previous generation RDNA architecture.

In June 2021, AMD officially released the Radeon RX 6000 series mobile graphics cards, launching the RX 6800M graphics card, which uses the same specifications of 40 CUs units and 40 light acceleration units as the desktop platform RX 6700 XT graphics card. 2560 stream processors, game clock frequency 2300MHz, equipped with 96MB AMD cache and 12GB GDDR6 video memory.

Processor: Ryzen 9 5900HX, 8C16T, 3.3GHz/4.6GHz

Graphics card: Radeon RX 6800M, 2560SP, 12GB GDDR6, 2116MHz/2390MHz

Memory : Samsung 16GB DDR4 3200MHz

Hard drive: 512GB Samsung PM991a solid state

Screen: 15.6 inches, 1920 x 1080 resolution 300Hz refresh rate 3ms response time, IPS display

Weight: 2.3kg body, 1kg adapter

Battery: 90Wh

First reservation price: 13,999 yuan

The first gaming notebook equipped with Zen 3+RDNA2 is the ROG Magic 5R notebook. Let’s take a look at the configuration first. It uses the 8-core 16-thread Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, which is AMD’s sub-flagship processor. The base frequency is 3.3GHz, the maximum acceleration frequency is 4.6GHz, and the maximum power consumption is through AMD’s SmartShift technology. Acceleration, up to 90W, full output processor performance. The graphics card is AMD's latest Radeon RX 6800M graphics card, with 2560 stream processors, 12GB GDDR6 video memory, and a nominal power consumption of 145W. Accelerated by SmartShift technology, it can reach about 160W, which is very close to the specifications of the RX 6700 XT desktop graphics card. The memory is Samsung's DDR4 3200MHz 16GB, the hard drive is Samsung's PM991a 512GB, the display is a 15.6-inch, 1920 x 1080 resolution, 300Hz refresh rate, 3ms response time IPS display, supports FreeSync Premium HDR technology, and the body thickness is about 27 mm, the body weight is 2.3kg, the adapter is 1kg, and it is equipped with a 90Wh battery. The initial reservation price is 13,999 yuan.

At the same time, the ROG Magic 5R notebook is also the first notebook to support the AMD Advantage design framework. AMD Advantage is a framework designed and built by AMD for gaming notebooks, optimizing the gaming experience.

Laptops that meet AMD Advantage standards must be equipped with a high-speed NVMe quad-channel solid-state drive, the laptop keyboard temperature near the WASD and direction keys must be lower than 40 degrees, the video playback life must be more than 10 hours, and it must be equipped with a display with a refresh rate of no less than 144Hz. screen and supports FreeSync Premium technology to comply with standards. By meeting the requirements for hard drive speed, high display refresh rate, battery life, and notebook keyboard tactile experience, combined with the high-performance support of Ryzen processors and AMD graphics cards, as well as AMD SmartShift and SAM technology, you can create a high-performance and high-experience Gaming laptop.

What we are reviewing this time is the ROG Magic 5R notebook just mentioned. The ROG Magic 5R notebook is the first 3A notebook released by ASUS this year that uses high-end Ryzen processors and flagship Radeon graphics cards. AMD Advantage specification, the red IIIR on the top pays tribute to the Ryzen x Radeon x ROG 3R combination platform, and also supports the replacement of shoulder straps of different colors. The metal body on side A is mainly black, with an eye of ROG in the middle. The small three-dimensional texture is actually the word ROG. There is also the AMD trademark on the top. If you look closely, you can also see a string of digital codes. This is a There are hidden easter eggs that you can try to crack.

There is also a little Easter egg here. The system indicator lights of notebooks are usually integrated on the C side, but ROG uses the staggered design of the display to make the indicator lights visible on both the A and C sides. It is very interesting. design.

As a high-end gaming notebook for playing games, ROG has integrated a 15.6-inch IPS gaming screen with a 300Hz refresh rate and 3ms response speed into the Magic 5R, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080P, and Supports FreeSync technology to reduce screen tearing in high frame rate e-sports games.

The C-surface Magic 5R gaming laptop adopts a special layout of 87-key keyboard, the touch panel area is increased by 85%, supports four-zone RGB backlight design, WASD transparent design, five game-specific hot keys, no need Through FN key switching, the full keyboard uses ROG Overstroke flash technology, which triggers faster keys and longer range. When playing games, you can get a gaming experience similar to that of a mechanical keyboard.

A special infrared sensor is also used at the bottom of the K key of the keyboard to monitor the temperature of the keyboard and automatically adjust the power supply and cooling modes. The CoolZone design is designed with small vents around the WASD keys, allowing the fan to draw air from above, reducing the temperature of the notebook keyboard for a long time, so that players will no longer be troubled by high temperatures when playing games.

Voice chat is also an indispensable function for playing games. The Moba 5R gaming notebook has built-in Smart Amp dual speakers that support Dolby Atmos technology. The microphone also supports two-way AI noise reduction technology, and the output of game sound effects and Voice chat inputs do not interfere with each other.

The large heat dissipation window on the D side, the non-slip foot pads adopt asymmetrical dynamic elements to enhance the grip, and there is also a unique surrounding edge RGB light design, which is linked with the keyboard backlight to complement each other.

Unscrew the 10 screws on the D side and briefly disassemble it. The Moba 5R gaming notebook is equipped with the Glacier Cooling Architecture 2.0 enhanced version for heat dissipation. It uses a vacuum chamber vapor chamber to cover the CPU, GPU and power supply. The heat source is connected to the core through liquid metal thermal conductive agent. Compared with the ordinary heat pipe structure, the heat dissipation power of Glacier 2.0 enhanced version has been increased by 25W. The surface of the vapor chamber is laser-engraved to show the components at the bottom, and the heat dissipation range is visualized.

On the left side, you can see two M.2 slots. One is connected to the original Samsung solid-state drive, and the other can be expanded with an additional solid-state drive. The gray part is two Samsung memories, which enables dual storage. Channel mode, a 90-watt-hour battery at the bottom, has a longer battery life than ordinary gaming laptops.

The wireless network card is located under the M.2 hard drive. The model is MediaTek's MT7921 and supports the latest Wi-Fi6 protocol.

Let’s take a look at the external interfaces of the notebook. The interfaces of the Moba 5R gaming notebook are mainly concentrated on the left side and back of the notebook. On the left side are 2 USB 3.0 interfaces and 1 3.5mm audio interface, which can be used Connect U disk, keyboard and headphones; back interface HDMI interface, USB 3.0 interface, full-featured USB Type-C interface (supports DP1.4 video output and 100W PD charging), RJ45 network port, power interface, Type-C The interface is 10Gbps, which is very suitable for connecting high-speed hard drives. The USB 3.0 interface can be used to connect a mouse, and the HDMI interface can be used to connect an external monitor. The RJ45 network port is Gigabit speed, and the interfaces are very rich. You can connect all external interfaces. Transform into a desktop computer at any time.

The Moba 5R notebook is equipped with the Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, which is the current sub-flagship product among AMD mobile Ryzen processors. Through SmartShift technology, the maximum output power consumption can reach 90W and the highest acceleration The frequency can reach 4.6GHz. Through AMD driver software, you can see that Smart Shift technology dynamically adjusts the power consumption tendency between the processor and GPU. When the processor needs more power consumption space, the upper limit of the processor power consumption will be adjusted. When the GPU needs more power consumption space, it will also be tilted towards the GPU to maximize the sweet spot ratio between heat dissipation and performance.

For Cinbench R20 and Cinbench R23, the processor multi-thread scores reached about 5378 points and 13809 points respectively, and the single-thread scores reached about 581 points and 1489 points respectively. They will have more performance advantages in productivity applications.

Let’s take a look at the running scores of 7Zip and 3DMark physical tests. The frequency of Ryzen 9 5900HX runs to around 4.4GHz, with scores of 77525 and 26045. It also has performance advantages in applications such as decoding and compression.

Finally, let’s take a look at the performance summary table. Because there are too many test items, we will not show the test process one by one. Compared with the Core i7 11800H, the multi-threaded performance of Ryzen 9 5900HX is improved by about 5%-10%, while the single-threaded performance is basically the same. In general, Ryzen 9 5900HX benefits from the superior energy efficiency of the Zen 3 architecture. When conducting multi-thread testing, it can fully release the processor performance and output higher multi-thread performance. In the single-thread part, it is comparable to the i7 11800H Quite, basically better than the performance of 11800H in all aspects.

After reading the performance of the processor, everyone must be very excited. Let’s take a look at the performance of RX 6800M.

RX 6800M is the highest-end model of the current RX 6000 series mobile graphics card. It is equipped with 40 Cus units, 2560 stream processors, and 12GB GDDR6 video memory. The specifications are the same as the desktop RX 6700 XT. Through 3DMARK FireStrike Loop From the test, it can be seen that the RX 6800M supports Smart Shift technology, and the maximum power consumption output can reach about 160W, which is very close to the full-blooded performance of the desktop RX 6700 XT. It will be better when playing some 3A large-scale stand-alone games that do not eat the CPU. Performance.

Let’s test the game to see the actual performance of RX 6800M.

I believe everyone is familiar with "Shadow of the Tomb Raider". We use 1920 x 1080 resolution, the highest quality setting, the graphics card frequency basically runs around 2.5GHz, and the frame rate is basically 100 frames about.

Let’s take a look at "Dirt 5" again. It has the same 1080P resolution, the highest image quality setting, and the graphics card frequency is also around 2.5GHz, which is worthy of praise. This is also the tendency of SmartShift technology on hardware power consumption we just mentioned Control, play some 3A games that do not eat the processor performance, the processor frequency is appropriately reduced, and more power consumption space is tilted towards the graphics card, so that the graphics card frequency can run higher. The frame rate of RX 6800M running Dust 5 is also around 100 frames, which is very smooth.

Let’s take a look at “Assassin’s Creed: Hall of Valor”. It is also 1080P, with extremely high image quality settings. The graphics card frequency can also run around 2.5GHz, and the frame rate is basically around 80 frames. The picture looks also Very smooth.

"Forza Motorsport 4" also uses extremely high image quality settings, but because it is a Microsoft Store game, the frame number and frequency of Afterburner cannot be displayed. We can look at the frames that come with the game in the upper right corner. The number is basically around 110-120 frames, which is quite good.

Let’s take a look at the data table again. In general, the RX 6800M graphics card is more than comparable to the RTX 3070 Laptop graphics card, and far exceeds the RTX 3060 Laptop graphics card. When the power consumption is equivalent to the RTX 3070 Laptop graphics card, its performance exceeds it by about 10%, and some performance should be It is comparable to RTX 3080 Laptop. This is also the performance advantage of the RDNA2 architecture we introduced at the beginning on a low-power mobile platform with the help of the architecture and AMD infinite cache design.

Let’s take a look at the comprehensive performance test.

PCMark10 is a software that measures the overall performance of a computer. It mainly tests application opening speed, video conferencing, web browsing, tables, image editing, rendering and video editing performance. The Magic 5R notebook scored 7284 points, processing The device can basically run stably at 4.5GHz in light load applications. According to the score calculation method published by PCMARK, a score higher than 4500 can be considered a high-performance computer, and a score higher than 5100 reaches the median range of the database. Applying 360, a score of 7284 has defeated 99% of computer users.

In the productivity Adobe Puget System test, the Moba 5R notebook scored 812 points in PhotoShop.

The battery life test uses PCMark 10 modern office and PCMark 8 home mode. The difference between the two is that PCMark 8 has more game tests and the load will be larger. PCMark 10 lasted for 7 hours and 50 minutes, and PCMark 8 lasted for 5 hours and 37 minutes. Because both tests were stopped in low-power mode, adding the low-power mode can increase the battery life by about 1 hour, which works out to 9 There is no problem with the battery life of about three hours. This kind of battery life is very rare in high-performance game notebooks.

If it is just standby, 12 hours is OK.

And after the battery is consumed, the laptop battery can be fully charged in about an hour through the highest charging speed of 150W. If you are in a hurry to go out, you can charge it for 3 or 4 hours before going out. .

Let’s take a look at the burn-in temperature performance.

The room temperature is 27 degrees, the AIDA64 FPU is burning, the Ryzen 9 5900HX consumes 90W, the frequency fluctuates around 4.1GHz, the core temperature reaches a maximum of 95 degrees, and then falls back after hitting the temperature wall, so the frequency Performance fluctuates.

Furmark burn-in, the average power consumption of RX 6800M is 161W, and the PPT Limit is 130W. With SmartShift support, the power consumption is increased by an additional 30W to about 160W. The core frequency floats between 2.1Ghz and 2.3GHz. The temperature is 86 degrees, and the memory temperature is 92 degrees. The heat dissipation of the RX 6800M is good and it has not hit the temperature wall, but the power consumption wall still exists, so the frequency fluctuates a bit.

The heat spots on the C side of the notebook are mainly concentrated near the power button in the upper right corner. This part is also a common area of ??notebooks with poor thermal insulation. Because the heating core and heat dissipation components of notebooks are generally located at the rear end of the notebook, which allows hot air to be discharged from the rear and sides of the notebook, the heat insulation in this location is usually not good. The temperature is around 55 degrees, which makes it slightly hot to touch. Not suitable for prolonged contact. Compared with the heat generated at the back end, the keyboard's WASD and direction keys are very cool. This is also the effect of ASUS's CoolZone design. Cold air is sucked in from near the WASD and direction keys, quickly taking away the heat. The keyboard is overall cooler. This prevents the key keys of general gaming notebooks from being exposed to high temperatures when playing games.

In one sentence, the Asus ROG Magic 5R notebook has a new AMD configuration of Ryzen 9 5900HX + Radeon RX 6800M. It has outstanding performance among game notebooks at the same price, and it also has a rare length for a game notebook of this level. Battery life sets a new benchmark for gaming notebook performance. In terms of user experience, the design of this product is unique. The easter eggs on the A side make the product full of humanism. The keyboard feel and screen look and feel are also excellent.

Since 2019, AMD has taken full advantages in process, power consumption and performance with its Zen 2 architecture and TSMC 7nm process. This year, with the blessing of Zen 3 architecture, RDNA 2 architecture and advanced 7nm process, the Ryzen 5000 mobile processor and RX 6000M mobile graphics card were launched. The performance of gaming notebooks has greatly improved, and has been well received by a large number of notebook OEM manufacturers. It has launched a number of popular products based on AMD chips. It has also cooperated with OEM manufacturers to quickly launch the AMD Advantage gaming notebook design framework, allowing various brands to perform functions at any time. The rapid launch of Zen3+RDNA2 gaming laptops fully demonstrates AMD’s ability to control the industry chain under the leadership of Dr. Su. Compared with AMD 10 years ago, it can be said that AMD will be completely reborn. I believe that in the future, AMD will continue to launch products that will make players feel Stunning new arrival.