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I'm not sure there was any special tuning or binning involved. I think Asus just bought special branding without having any influence on AMD's silicon roadmap.

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Asus uses custom firmware for more performance consistency, but yeah the silicon is the same AFAIK.

I doubt their custom firmware is any more custom than any other mobile device. Every product needs custom fan curves and power and temperature limits.

Lenovo got the same chip (Z1 Extreme).

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