Jacob earned his first byline writing for his own tech blog. From there, he graduated to professionally breaking things as hardware writer at PCGamesN, and would go on to run the team as hardware editor.
Usually we'd gloss over processors like Intel's 200V-series for a gaming laptop, favouring instead a chunky desktop part stuffed into a chunkier chassis. Though that's changing pretty quickly. With handheld gaming PCs on the rise and thin-and-light gaming laptops offering impressive gaming performance, there's more of a case for picking up a device with a low-power processor. And seemingly few better for the task than Intel's latest..
It's good to keep this power difference in mind when you check out these performance charts, which, all things considered, paint Intel's latest 200V-series in a very good light.The 140V easily outpaces the 'Intel Arc Graphics' found within the 155H across all tests. That's all performance from improvements to the underlying architecture, too. Both iGPUs have the same number of Xe-cores at eight a piece, and what's more, the 258V's GPU is clocked lower at 1.
The two competing chips are neck-a-neck in Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, a ray-traced game, both managing 27 fps with Intel slightly pulling ahead on the 1% low frame rate.I did run into a few bugs through my testing, however.
But it's easy to underestimate the 258V here. Even I'm surprised by how much it can hold its own against much more highly-threaded processors. Hyper-Threading clearly is not the be-all and end-all of multithreaded performance. This is not a chip that gets smacked around in multithreaded tests. It's a hair faster than the 155H in 3DMark Time Spy. And a touch ahead of the 155H in Cinebench R24 nT.
The Zenbook S 14 and Zenbook 14 come with 72 Whr and 75 Whr batteries, respectively. The Zephyrus G16 is a bit of a lump with a 90 Whr battery, a bigger screen, and a higher wattage chip. That's hardly apples to apples, so I won't make too much of it, but for the record it managed 70 minutes. What's more important, though, is that the 258V manages to get within spitting distance of the AMD chip despite a much lower wattage.
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