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Not that I want to apologize for poor performance, but I remember feeling let down by that review because some obvious differences between the platforms were not highlighted that should feed into the conclusions, not the least of which was the drastically different memory used between the two platforms.

The article was billed as "let's see the difference between AMD and Intel" but there were significant platform differences that made it not quite apples-to-apples.

Picasso is a nearly two year old design on 12nm being compared to Intel's latest Sunny Cove design on their (profusely) bleeding-edge process. It was a valid comparison, as that what Microsoft was selling. But I expect a better showing with process parity.

The article on The Verge quoted AMD as doubling the power efficiency from Zen+ (with 7nm Zen 2). Very interested to see real world battery life before making any judgements.