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Ultra 7 155H, Ultra 9 185H or Ryzen 7 8845HS?

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The new laptop I'm thinking of buying effectively gives me the choice of the above three CPUs with all other components the same (other than chipsets, obviously). Passmark ranks them in ascending order as listed above but I expect there's more to their relative performance than that. As far as I can find out AMD's IGPU is marginally ahead of Intel's, both roughly equivalent to a GTX 1650, which is all I need. So are there any aspects of the Ultras' performance that make them worth the price premium over AMD?
 
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The new laptop I'm thinking of buying effectively gives me the choice of the above three CPUs with all other components the same (other than chipsets, obviously). Passmark ranks them in ascending order as listed above but I expect there's more to their relative performance than that. As far as I can find out AMD's IGPU is marginally ahead of Intel's, both roughly equivalent to a GTX 1650, which is all I need. So are there any aspects of the Ultras' performance that make them worth the price premium over AMD?
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You need to be very careful with your selection as different models of laptop use different power profiles. So for instance ultra 7 might be running a lot lower than the spec suggests.
 
With those Intel ones you have to be careful what your buying is what's been reviewed especially in regards to the memory speeds. A lot of review samples were sent out with tuned memory running at speeds that are not always available at retail.

If the graphics are important to you I would suggest getting a CPU with the 780m as AMD's software stack is more reliable and consistent (although Intel is a lot better now). On the other hand Intel has hardware accelerated XESS which is better then FRS.
 
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