ASUS ROG Flow Z13 & XG Mobile RTX 3080 Review

Handbrake shows the similar picture; AMD’s new HS-series chip may be faster when inside a 14”-style laptop. But when viewed through the prism of this thin, sub-1.2kg device, ASUS and Intel deliver very solid performance indeed.

7-Zip is an area where Intel has clearly closed a lot of ground. AMD still wins handsomely in decompressing, but Intel does well in compressing. That’s aided by the high-speed LPDDR5 memory.

Running at 5200MHz, even a modest 16GB solution delivers some mega bandwidth numbers. And we don’t see any write-speed quirkiness from the Intel-based Flow Z13 like we see from ASUS’ AMD laptop.

Latency, though, that’s the clear downside of LPDDR5 memory.

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