AMD has launched the new Ryzen 5000 Mobile series of Zen 3 processors and we have had some time to play about with the Ryzen 9 5980HS in the slim-and-light ASUS ROG Flow X13 laptop. The eight-core, sixteen-thread Ryzen 9 5980HS is a performance monster in its 35W TDP mode, but there are some quirky clock speed and throttling behaviours with the Flow X13 laptop. Let’s have a closer look.
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The
Ryzen 9 5980HS that we are tested comes to us via the
ASUS ROG Flow X13 laptop. This thin-and-light 13.4” laptop partners the 35W TDP eight-core Ryzen chip with 32GB of LPDDR4X 4266MHz memory, a 1TB NVMe SSD, and a 62 Whr battery with 100W USB-C charging.