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Gaming on a Ryzen 9 4900HS Laptop with a Discrete GPU

Following up to our review  of AMD's new Ryzen Mobile 4000 laptop CPU and having covered productivity performance and touched on gaming using the integrated GPU in our initial review, now it’s time to tackle the other main use case for these processors, and that’s gaming with a discrete GPU. Image source - TECHSPOT / Image by  Tim Schiesser   This is particularly important for Ryzen H-series parts as gaming laptops stick to these 45W-ish processors almost exclusively. We know that AMD has a very compelling part on their hands, with much better efficiency plus better multi-thread and single-thread performance for the most part, but gaming can often be a story of its own. Latencies, boost performance, frequency, can all play a part, so today we’ll be doing our best to explore how the Ryzen 9 4900HS fares in games. The biggest challenge for this test was getting an apples-to-apples platform to compare the 4900HS against Intel processors. Our Ryzen 4000 test b...