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With the recent launch of an Intel-powered 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 for businesses, we now have the rare opportunity to directly compare it to an almost identical laptop with a consumer-oriented AMD chipset. That’s exactly what AnandTech has done with a new analysis that pits two 15-inch Surface 3 laptops against one another — one featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 3780U and an enterprise-focused device with an Intel Core i7-1065G7.
What the results show is that while AMD’s new “Picasso” Zen+ APU platform is a huge step forward for the company’s laptop processors, it still can’t quite match the performance of Intel’s chips. As AnandTech puts it:
“There aren’t too many ways to sugar coat the results of this showdown though. AMD’s Picasso platform,…