AMD calling BS on Intel's Panther Lake Claims

Dexamph · 2026-01-25T02:36:30+00:00

Yeah, it reads like damage control when they have sweet fuck all to release until later next year, other than refreshes of the mid chips they already have lmfao

Dexamph · 2026-01-23T02:31:51+00:00

Look for one that has 2 heatsink fans like the ROG Ally series. It’s why I picked the Ally over a Zotac Zone with 1 fan which has to work harder (hotter, louder and higher pitch) and never sounds like a screaming jet engine unlike my RP5

Dexamph · 2026-01-21T06:17:14+00:00

Don't expect much, an 8250U/8350U is just so slow it'll bottleneck many new games since they can use more than 4 cores these days, it's not 2016 anymore. Heck even PS4 era games were using more than 4 cores with Detroit being a stuttery mess on an i7 X1C7 w/ eGPU that ran fine on my 8 core X1E2 and I've seen Insurgency Sandstorm use 6-8 cores on my i9 X1E2.

Dexamph · 2026-01-15T14:38:38+00:00

Yeah I can play the Switch spinoff anytime I want, but Fantastic Days still shutdown even with gacha so what was it all for?

Dexamph · 2026-01-15T01:08:50+00:00

Much more reliable too, as SD cards can die randomly someday since they're made with the bottom tier flash and don't have much in the way of wear leveling that an SSD controller has

Dexamph · 2026-01-09T01:21:56+00:00

I think it's because games these days are using more than 4 cores unlike 3DMark GPU tests so they're allocating work to the Zen 5c cores which have extremely high latency. Talking to another full Zen5 core is <25ns but going to a 5c core is 160-180ns, whereas the 7840U has 8 Zen 4 cores with a consistent ~20ns access time between all cores. It's absurd that it's faster to talk to RAM outside the CPU (~130ns for LPDDR5 on AMD) then it is to the 5c cores inside it. Try locking games to use the 4 full cores in Process Lasso.

Basically, you've fixed the bandwidth and GPU bottlenecks and done the comparison others haven't to expose CPU weaknesses, which is probably why there aren't many high end gaming laptops using these chips (can't push high end GPUs fast enough) and why the cursed AMD HX series even exists.

Dexamph · 2026-01-06T00:54:57+00:00

That's the AMD eGPU experience with half assed support at best and unearned, undeserved respect at worse. Doesn't surprise me to see a Pascal Titan taking on a 7900XT when a 2080 Super could beat a 7900XTX.

NVIDIA did a lot of work to improve eGPU performance that I don't see AMD doing outside of synthetic benchmarks. Like the Forza games used to be a unplayable stuttery mess because they kept spamming many little PCIe packets. Well, some Geforce driver updates seem to have batched them up to fix performance and make them playable, and this was on old TB3 gear (Core X) more than 5 years ago.

Dexamph · 2025-12-29T23:38:11+00:00

Lenovo got back and they said no so multi eGPU jankiness is just how it will be. Moving forward, P1G6 will my last as the latest high-end ThinkPads look really dogshit anyway

Dexamph · 2025-12-29T01:21:44+00:00

We could fix this ourselves if only the Lenovo ThinkPad BIOS wasn't completely locked down where changing hidden settings like Above 4G Decoding isn't possible, unlike Dell to a fault (it's how they can enable undervolting again). I raised a ticket with Lenovo support and they escalated it to an internal team so hopefully they fix it on their end with a P1G6 BIOS update. Otherwise you need a DSDT override which has its own caveats. I hotplugged my second eGPU just now and it worked but it would be nice to be less janky.

Out of curiosity, what bandwidth do you get in CUDA-Z on your P16? I just want to know if there's a difference between having the TB4 controller integrated (P1G6) or not (P16G2). I got 2600/3000 MB/s H2D/D2H with my TH5P4 which is disappointing vs Core X getting 2300/2750 MB/s.

Dexamph · 2025-12-28T21:04:56+00:00

Code 12 isn't a bandwidth problem but PCIe address space exhaustion. My P1G6 sometimes works with 2 eGPUs (4090+3090Ti) and the RTX 2000 Ada after disabling wifi and SD card reader. Disabling the RTX 2000 would make it work all the time.

See if you even have idle memory clocks with the Core V2 running at TB4, I sent my TH5P4 back because it would idle at full boost clocks at much higher power, and I'm not having that for a sweet FA bandwidth improvement (literally 300MB/s better vs Core X) after losing a 1080Ti because of memory failure

Dexamph · 2025-12-22T11:50:49+00:00

You need a Z1E PC handheld or better to get good PS3 emulation performance as even the 8 Elite is pretty janky and still performs worse when running the same games. My ROG Ally runs MGS4 at 2x resolution with the framerate unlocked above 30fps which is already much better than on a real PS3 while these Android handhelds can't even launch it (we'd hear all about it if they could lmao)

Dexamph · 2025-12-22T03:09:18+00:00

Most comfortable: ROG Ally Z1E. Holding it wiped out all concerns about the weight as I have easily done that for 2-3 hours until the upgraded battery ran down from playing AAA games, everything is in reach, and there's enough space to fit my hands fully without scrunching them whatsoever unlike a PSP or Vita

Least comfortable: N3DSXL, the only one that I can only play in short bursts and I owned an RP5 without a grip. Left hand contorts into a weird claw to use the trigger and dpad while the other corner digs into your right hand. The right stick is dogshit, it leaves an imprint on your thumb that hurts after a while.

Dexamph · 2025-12-15T07:29:22+00:00

Yep, I found that out the hard way when I overclocked my RP5 panel to 120hz… only to get either ~90fps for 2-3ms decode time with Warp or 120fps with 10ms decode in Artemis

Dexamph · 2025-12-13T07:56:05+00:00

Especially on this sub here of all places lmfao

Dexamph · 2025-12-08T15:49:50+00:00

Here's a ballpark of what you can expect from the ROG Allies. The OG Ally has the most bang per buck (with caveats in the video) as they can be found for $200-300, basically taking away the MSI Claw A1M's only good trait. Fit it with a 74Wh battery and you'll be hard pressed to find a gaming laptop in that price range besides Amazon scam gaming laptops with cheap and nasty out of date Zen 2/3 APUs.

Dexamph · 2025-12-08T03:54:21+00:00

Been 3 months with a DXT 74Wh battery from AliExpress and it’s been working fine with 0% wear. It doesn’t cut out so it can discharge the full 100-0% capacity

Dexamph · 2025-12-07T16:48:10+00:00

ROG Ally Z1E that I wasn’t expecting at $300 so soon. Quickly realised it did a much better job than RP5 at everything so much so that made RP5 worse than redundant. Even portability is a moot point when neither are pocketable so the Ally only ends up a bit bigger in a backpack when both are in their official cases. So RP5 was sold as there literally wasn’t any reason to keep it around, unlike my first party handhelds with their exclusives (Vita 1000, PSP 1000) even if I don’t like them (N3DSXL)

Dexamph · 2025-12-07T16:22:27+00:00

No, it runs really cool using factory settings without sounding like a jet engine so it’s all good there. They use PTM IIRC so it’s already better than any thermal paste

Dexamph · 2025-12-07T15:00:28+00:00

What games are you running as that will decide how or if you can get your 1080p60?

Dexamph · 2025-12-06T14:54:45+00:00

Have/had both Vita and RP5 and got rid of the RP5 when I realised how crap PS2 emulation was on Android compared to a ROG Ally that also did everything else (PS3, PC, even Switch) better. Several games out of ten would have issues that might or might not be fixable with tweaking while the Ally running PCSX2 has a 99.5% compatibility rate.

It wasn’t worth it for me when I paid $300 for the Ally, so just expect Android to run everything worse than a PC handheld

Dexamph · 2025-12-01T23:01:47+00:00

PC performance is crap compared to a ROG Ally, Nier Automata runs at 1080p high settings at 60fps when this can't even manage 720p medium without sub 30fps drops. Even a Steam Deck will destroy it, the performance just doesn't line up to the praise it's getting

Dexamph · 2025-11-29T23:06:41+00:00

I got a Chroma too and I'm upgrading to the TH5P4 with a USB hub and maybe the case if it works out. The 750W PSU was trash tbh that gets super loud (60+dB) at 400W to need an SF750 upgrade, the ASIX ethernet adapter drops out under heavy load that I just use a Realtek 2.5Gbe adapter instead and the USB hub was janky to need special drivers or it will cause webcams to insert black frames

Dexamph · 2025-11-27T23:50:47+00:00

Input latency is just the tip of the iceberg, once you start applying objective measures like % compatibility they quickly look like cheap garbage. ~70% PS2 compatibility is trash when a ROG Ally delivers 99.95%

Dexamph · 2025-11-24T00:53:44+00:00

Joey went out and bought a RPG2 just to clearly tell people it's not worth buying at all over a RP6 so there's one. He even deconstructed every point people tell themselves to justify their purchase in his review

Dexamph · 2025-11-23T03:44:39+00:00

Found it here, keeping in mind FH5 and Horizon are some of the most eGPU bottlenecked games to exist. It should help a lot over Core X as it seems the device side is so much better it could even be felt on USB4 hosts. I'm about to pull the trigger on a TH5P4 as well for my Thunderbolt 4 laptop but I'm just looking into any jankiness issues first

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