a printed inventory of objects inside the box works just as well for 1/millionth the byte count of an "unboxing video."
There are lots if you actually look.
There's one thing you can't beat "unboxing videos" for: figuring out how to repack everything properly when you have to return a product...
Very impressive indeed, especially for an 80-105 TDP laptop processor. Below is a relevant graph from this TechSpot review of the new Asus ROG Zephyrus G14.
Very impressive indeed, especially for an 80-105 TDP laptop processor. Below is a relevant graph from this TechSpot review of the new Asus ROG Zephyrus G14.
https://www.techspot.com/review/2419-amd-ryzen-9-6900hs/
This just confirms my choice in my notebook. I bought an inspiron 5406. I love the touch screen 2 in 1 form factor and the upgradability I didn't get with the xps 13. I can upgrade the ram, SSD, wifi, battery and even the processor in my notebook. I could not do as many upgrades to the XPS 13. The build quality of my inspiron is great. It has XE graphics and I have edited all sorts of things on it with no slow downs. Yep, there are probably some 20 lb, fugly gaming block that could edit videos faster with a dedicated card, but this works great.It is difficult to know how much the typical GPU benchmarks relate to photo oriented programs such as Topaz, DXO, etc. They seem to be more oriented to games. Sometimes video too. The Intel iGPUs have video decoders for some formats, as do the Apple Silicon chips, so they can often be quite fast for video, sometimes faster than a separate GPU. See this video where among other things it is discussed (including Iris Xe):
He also talks about how a separate GPU hardly helps Lightroom and Photoshop at all. We all knew that already. He doesn't mention Topaz and DXO though where a fast GPU can be helpful. Although if you aren't working with really big photos then having a fast GPU is less important. My UHD 620 (for Sharpen AI) and Nvidia MX250 (for Denoise AI) is still fast enough on my 20mp, 16mp, and smaller photos to not be a big problem. Especially since, on average, I only use one of them on about 1 photo every week or two.
Do you use the Topaz programs or DXO DeepPrime? I wonder how the Iris Xe GPU does with those programs which depend heavily on the GPU? I have never found any good info on that.
I am purchasing the luminar package very soon and I will report back. I am curious about this as well. Right now I use the affinity suite of software, resolve and polarr for my creative imaging software. I like the luminar package for what I want to do. As far as I know, they rely on GPU as well.
If you plan to mount video in 4K, these video cards will not solve this task.
I am pretty sure it will work well for you. But, Affinity, etc. are probably more like Photoshop and Lightroom in that they only make rather light use of the GPU. Heavy hitting photo programs like Topaz and DXO do some serious processing and make very heavy use of the GPU. The processing time can be dramatically different with them using a good GPU and using the CPU. Also, dramatic differences depending on which GPU.
The Iris Xe is very weak. If you've done HDR stacking, focus stacking, pano stitching, you'll hit the limits very quickly. Iris Xe is only a tad better than their old Iris Plus iGPU.
I have been using the Luminar NEO software for a week or so, and yes, it's very reliant on the GPU for its processing. On my notebook, the software works quickly and smoothly for every task I put at it. The longest wait for doing a heavy edit was approx one second. No long delays, etc. Xe graphics is fine for most photography use and video editing of 1080 videos as well. Bump up to 6k and yes, the system will take longer to process videos but nothing terrible. I keep going back to the graphs from the comparison video of M1, mac pro, the puget system (built in 2017) and the new XPS 13 system. This shows the difference in intel based systems using graphics cards and Xe on the xps 13. All systems do it fairly quickly, but the two with dedicated gpu hardware do very well. The iris Xe based xps notebook is not far behind the two desktop beasts, with the M1 taking up the rear. Lack of ram and low graphics power is the culprit there.
