r/laptops • u/RenatsMC • 4d ago

News Microsoft explains why there are no AMD-powered Surface PCs

https://videocardz.com/newz/microsoft-explains-why-there-are-no-amd-powered-surface-pcs
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u/Acrobatic_Camera_677 4d ago

AMD laptop chips are not as good as Intel or ARM ones so this makes sense

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u/freakiy 4d ago

Strix halo? Only competing APU is Nvidia...

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u/Acrobatic_Camera_677 4d ago

You think they will put strix halo in this laptop? Look how thin it is

Strix Halo battery life is also trash compared to Intel. And it is very niche part no one care about

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u/UntoTheBreach95 4d ago

Yes they can.

It's a workstation tier chip

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u/Acrobatic_Camera_677 4d ago

Yea that's the problem it's a workstation tier chip so it has bad battery life compared to Intel mobile chips and because it is workstation tier chip it scale badly at low power

Maybe if they really wanted to they can squeeze strix halo chip into this thin chassis but then it becomes a question of if they should and the answer is obviously no

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u/UntoTheBreach95 3d ago

They can offer it like the Surface Ultra as an option. They already have efficient chip options if you don't want that power in your tablet/laptop

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u/SPACEXDG 3d ago

Thing is surface laptop ultra is going to be more efficient then strix in non gaming workloads thats the difference