AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

[Quattro Pete]

Bought an HP laptop to replace wife's aging Lenovo Yoga which will now go to my son to wear out.

The choice on this HP laptop was between AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS and Intel Core Ultra 7 155U CPU. All other specs appeared identical (16GB RAM, 1TB SSD). I know that at 100% utilization, the AMD is faster, but this would be an unlikely use case for my wife who mainly does email and Office apps - nothing that requires a lot of horsepower. Single thread performance seems comparable between the two CPUs. The 155U is less power hungry (battery should last longer), and generates less heat which is noticeable when you keep it on your lap, from what I've read in the reviews.

Now, for the wife, the most important spec was color - the Intel-equipped one was dark grey, while AMD was light silver. Dark grey won.

I hope she likes her new computer, and I hope she has no issues with it. I've read about some problems with recent Intel CPUs, but I thought only their desktop CPUs were impacted...

 

[Pew]

I ordered a few Ryzen laptops back in 2018 for work to see how well they did against the Intel laptops. Intel won out handedly, battery life was much better and didn't run as hot.

 

[Trav]

A couple of weeks ago the HP Probook I use I use for customer info and printing died, the graphics card/chip let go when I started it.
I needed a replacement right away and found this one a Microcenter for $499, after stripping the HP and M$ garbage out of it eg edge, one drive, web viewer2, etc it runs much better, uses much less memory (32% vs almost 50% of 16gb) and runs cooler.
It seems to have decent specs for a low end unit but it does perform very well, the only complaint is there is no HDD light.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/680004/hp-255-g10-156-laptop-computer-dark-ash-silver

 

[dubber09]

Imho, AMD is competitive in desktop market, but for laptops - Intel all the way.

 

[Quattro Pete]

One thing I can't find on this HP Envy laptop is how to limit battery charge to something less than 100% to prolong battery life. My Lenovos have this option, and so does my work Dell. This HP apparently has something called "Adaptive Battery Optimizer," but so far it hasn't done much - it keeps the battery at 100% when plugged in.

 

[JHZR2]

One thing I can't find on this HP Envy laptop is how to limit battery charge to something less than 100% to prolong battery life. My Lenovos have this option, and so does my work Dell. This HP apparently has something called "Adaptive Battery Optimizer," but so far it hasn't done much - it keeps the battery at 100% when plugged in.

My HP that is almost always plugged in, tends to keep the battery at 96% or so. There is no setting. I think it is looking for trends, like my apple devices do, but there isn’t one really for my work machine. Ideally it would keep the percentage a bit lower and allow for an easy toggle. Asus seems to have it figured out…

 

[Trav]

My old Toughbook was made in 07 with win XP now it stays on the plug but I do occasionally run it on the battery which is the original and always shows 100%. It does run win 11 albeit it not very fast so I will either convert it to Linux, scrap it/sell it for parts or just toss it on a shelf.
The old Fujitsu made in 2010 runs win 7 and has all my car programs on it eg Ista, TIS, Saab wis, etc, it is still on the original battery.

 

[Urshurak776]

If building a gaming PC, AMD all the way. Laptop, go Intel.

 

[Pew]

One thing I can't find on this HP Envy laptop is how to limit battery charge to something less than 100% to prolong battery life. My Lenovos have this option, and so does my work Dell. This HP apparently has something called "Adaptive Battery Optimizer," but so far it hasn't done much - it keeps the battery at 100% when plugged in.

Supposedly HP Command Center works for Envy and Spectre laptops to control max battery charge but I haven't tried it since I reimage all the machines.

 

[ripcord]

My main opinion is that I have had worse luck with the build quality of HP laptops than Lenovo or business class Dell laptops... hinges, keyboards, touch pads, etc.