I remember you were more likely to spot a VIA processor in a laptop then spot an AMD processor before the Athlon 64 mobile processors arrived as Turion.
This is new.
Intel really did accelerate into the laptop mobile space with Centrino. It seemed like no one could match them on a combination of performance, aggressive power saving and battery life, consistently good WiFi and good GPU solutions (Nvidia optimus integration)
It looked up until now like Intel had some secret sauce in it's drivers or elsewhere as well, to get such (relatively) good battery life out of the pig that Windows running non-UWP apps can be. I wonder how much is AMD getting better at software/drivers and optimization, and how much is AMD just getting such a lead in power usage and performance that they can compensate their software.
UWP apps use different APIs to interact with windows than Win32. So at least in theory, the OS can actively manage them similar to Android or iOS apps.
I've noticed that Zen 2 on desktop can easily suffer from re-occurring spikes in temperature, caused by background Win32 running on a 10-30 second timer, doing small amount of work that causes the cpu to Boost to it's maximum clock, then drop back down.
I could see that mitigated a lot of that with drivers or CPU code that is much slower to ramp up in response to load, but it would be better still if the OS wasn't running any Apps that behaved like that, especially while User isn't actively interacting.
I remember you were more likely to spot a VIA processor in a laptop then spot an AMD processor before the Athlon 64 mobile processors arrived as Turion.
This is new.
Intel really did accelerate into the laptop mobile space with Centrino. It seemed like no one could match them on a combination of performance, aggressive power saving and battery life, consistently good WiFi and good GPU solutions (Nvidia optimus integration)
It looked up until now like Intel had some secret sauce in it's drivers or elsewhere as well, to get such (relatively) good battery life out of the pig that Windows running non-UWP apps can be. I wonder how much is AMD getting better at software/drivers and optimization, and how much is AMD just getting such a lead in power usage and performance that they can compensate their software.