Huawei MateBook X Pro (2021) Review: A Sleek and Vibrant Notebook
by Dr. Ian Cutress on September 28, 2021 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Notebooks
- Intel
- Huawei
- Laptops
- Matebook X Pro
- Tiger Lake
System Performance: Web, Emulation, 3D Modeling
As we’ve covered a number of times in reviews of this level of laptop – the offering from Intel compared to AMD is quite different. At the same power level, AMD has up to 8 cores with 16 threads, while Intel only offers half that, in exchange for some go faster AVX512 instructions and built-in on-die Thunderbolt. Also, single thread performance is a key factor of Intel’s design, aiming for a super-fast immediate response for most tasks that are simple point and click on a work device. We saw on the previous page that this 15 W processor will offer up to 38 W instantaneously, and this is likely to be important on a number of our system performance tests.
That being said, we did have some issues running PCMark’s video compute workloads on our machine. PCMark10, no matter that the system was fully updated, would not correctly finish the video display and streaming encoding in its test suite. This is somewhat annoying, as that is the first test in PCMark’s run, and also part of the PCMark battery test. We were unable to find the root cause in our time with the device.
The mix of performance in the 1165G7 is interesting because it clearly lacks on some of the more demanding workloads, but ends up ahead on the lighter workloads like Optane and Dolphin. WinRAR is a mix of multi-thread and DRAM speed, so the Intel is in the ballpark there.
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dontlistentome - Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - link
This reads like he's absolutely knackered. He's picked up for Ryan over the past few weeks, give him a bit of slack.But you can fire the sub-editor who reviewed it :).
The_Assimilator - Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - link
You mean the sub-editor that doesn't exist?Tomatotech - Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - link
I agree, poor form to review this without including a M1 MacBook in the comparisons. Some people coming from Intel Macbooks might be looking to buy a MateBook instead of a M1 Macbook for various reasons (including the need to run Windows) and would have appreciated the comparison.It's also good to see how the latest Intel Matebooks stack up against a 1 year old M1 MacBook. By extrapolation, this will also give some idea how the soon-to-be-released M2 / M1X MacBook Pro compared to Intel's best.
AnandTech, you missed out on some eyeball attention here which would have helped with your advertising income.
ballsystemlord - Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - link
A lot of things in this review are missing. For example, the color accuracy.webdoctors - Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - link
At this price I'd be looking at the Mac offerings.Bik - Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - link
Very good indepth review with zero bias. An order of magnitude better than those notebookcheck reviews.Prestissimo - Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - link
With the recent "Huawei phone spyware debacle" in Europe, I will NEVER buy or endorse a Huawei product in my life.Nice design though, kind of looks like that one popular Ultrabook you see everywhere.
vladx - Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - link
> With the recent "Huawei phone spyware debacle"Source?
DougMcC - Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - link
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-accuses-huawei-...vladx - Thursday, September 30, 2021 - link
Oh so you were referring to the usual baseless accusations, got it.