Die Shrink 155: AMD Ryzen 390 Testing & Zen 6 Medusa Halo
Added 2025-07-11 08:30:30 +0000 UTCTom just got an AMD Ryzen 390 Strix Halo 64GB laptop! Over the next week or so heโll be testing this with the mindset that this sort of laptop could be much cheaper soon, and thus try to not just evaluate its quality and capabilities - but advise to gamers and professionals what price would make this "worth it". This is a conversation not just about testing today's laptops, but what we want from the future of them!
0:00 Testing an HP zbook ultra G1a
13:21 Charging Capability and Battery Life
25:37 AMD Strix Halo's Biggest Problems
29:10 Testing the NPU & Stability
37:24 APU vs dGPU Benefits, Halo WILL get Cheaper!
48:52 Zen 6 Medusa Halo
Comments
I hear you man, security software easily knocks performance and battery a couple tiers down from the base hardware. It's quite bad in the US Government sector/DoD where 10th Gen Intel laptops (i5+) with SSD operate as if they were a $200 laptop with even simply opening a browser causes 30s or more of system slowdown.
CyberneticMedic
2025-07-16 21:16:17 +0000 UTCI work in a European milti-national and Ryzen has been the standard laptop CPU for last 3 years
Steven Dick
2025-07-12 14:44:03 +0000 UTCYou need to experience some corporate laptop setups that still benefit from sleep because of the crushing performance of the terrible security software
Steven Dick
2025-07-12 13:37:34 +0000 UTC
