It’s here! Testing the first AMD laptop with USB4
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It’s been a prolonged road, getting from there to right here. “There” being elephantine, expert strengthen for excessive-trudge USB4 records transfers on an AMD-powered computer, and “right here” being the day that we are able to at final expend it. Gordon’s at final got his hands on correct this form of computer, doubtlessly the most up-to-date Razer Blade 14 with an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU. And it has USB4 strengthen out of the field, no beta motherboard BIOS update required.
Testing commences, including a 10-gig Ethernet adapter (Thunderbolt 3), SanDisk G-Power (Thunderbolt 3), OWC MiniStack hub with a 2TB M.2 drive mounted (Thunderbolt 4), a Razer Core X external GPU with an RTX 3080 (Thunderbolt 3 again), and (drumroll!) a pre-production ZikeDrive USB4 external enclosure. CrystalDiskMark is showing it practically straight away hitting the maximum 3.8Gbps learn and write speeds, surpassing one of the most quickest Thunderbolt 3 enclosures.
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