Pushing a Mobile AMD Ryzen APU to the LIMIT!!!

I go to unnecessary lengths to see how much performance I can get from an entry-level AMD Ryzen APU. I push this little laptop to it's limit!
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[@TimmyJoePCTech]

I love how you've never seen laptop ram before lololol. Daddy be proud :'-D

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Hahaha!! What is a laptop? 😂

[@AloxCore]

Hol' up.. Daddy?!!

[@FreedomForAll2013]

Its Timmy Joe!! You missed my GPU add on the interwebbs

[@amehu]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff hahahH

[@campkira]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff that screen tearing is driving me insane... this is why APU don't work... best to go with console..

[@JustinY.]

Ampere series: *Exists* Dawid: *It's mobile CPU time*

[@aaditbontha465]

our lord and savior has returned

[@lmaoitsmee1812]

If Justin Y comments on your videos, you're doing SUM right.

[@ZaidosY]

How are you a pc nerd? I thought ninjas were all about stealth

[@ZaidosY]

Lmao

[@senseiwu1308]

This video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.

[@arooon1488]

2:57 damn those APUs really do work hard! Can't believe the GPU is working at 65536% usage!

[@haley_c]

The GPU usage at 65536% usage is a glitch in MSI Afterburner; once you enable unifed GPU monitoring inside MSI Afterburner, it will show a more realistic percentage.

[@tiborbarna8248]

@@haley_c like 6969?

[@SuperMineMatteo]

"upgrade the ram" laughs in soldered memory chips

[@BonusCrook]

Soldering iron

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

F

[@CaveyMoth]

This upgraded low-spec system has more RAM than my desktop!

[@BonusCrook]

@@CaveyMoth Thats because it has a dumb ram configuration because of chips on the back

[@bitelaserkhalif]

*whips out bga reballing tool* well, let's hope it works out well

[@Yuu_Touko]

>everyone else - an RTX 3080 testing >Dawid - extreme apu overclocking Gotta love Dawid.

[@runratchetrun]

agreed 100%! but doesn't hurt that he didn't get a sample model did he?

[@Yuu_Touko]

@@runratchetrun it does. He is one of the best tech guys on this god forsaken site. It's a shame that NVIDIA skipped him.

[@nanospace2389]

it says fir mine if it overclocks it goes from 1.5ghz to 2.25 ghz on a ryzen 5 apu

[@Grimmwoldds]

@@DarkMAGA Well, either that or they were afraid it would be paired with something Dawid calls "loser suckface"

[@raven4k998]

@@nanospace2389 but this is a ryzen 3 not 5 lol

[@seelix6005]

Me: watching this on Intel HD 5500 My Intel HD 5500: Mfkr don't even think

[@confusion506]

The Intel HD 5500 isn't a processor, it's the graphics built in the processor.

[@ArtisChronicles]

@@confusion506 which is what he'd actually be watching it on since that's like outputting the video.

[@lakshyanarang6494]

I am actually thinking of doing this with my intel HD 4400

[@TechyyGD]

I have Intel HD 400.

[@carspeedbuilds503]

i have uhd 620 in my laptop but mostly use my pc that has a vega 64 in it

[@KentRoads]

Ryzen APU paired with single channel RAM... destined to fail lol

[@Hiramekiza]

Everyone Else: "Meat and potatoes." Dawid: "Meat... and bananas." Me: o_O ?

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

They actually go really well together. Especially on a Pizza. 💩

[@ebattleon]

Until you eaten boiled Green Bananas(or even ripe) you won't get it :D

[@ultrademigod]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff That sounds delicious. Once you've removed the meat, the banana... oh and the pizza.

[@CaveyMoth]

@@ultrademigod Pizza time.

[@Starscreamious]

@@ebattleon Are you guys talking about plantains?

[@FilmsGamer]

if you didnt increase the VRM current limits in the power tab all that extra wattage didnt do anything

[@flyfin108]

this ^

[@LuxLikeGaming]

Everyone: RTX 3080 is soo fast! Dawid: APUs are still cool, right? :0

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

I definitely not sad I didn't get one to do a video with. 😅

[@DarkoPetreski]

Yeah "faster" but it consumes like 70 watts more. Its only worth it you are using for blender and shit like that.

[@CaveyMoth]

Science Studio: "AMD FX go brrrr."

[@ppnexus2000]

@@DarkoPetreski what the fuck does "faster" mean. Its 2x the 2080 for the same price. 70 watts isn't much for a 750w psu

[@whatyareckon5985]

@@ppnexus2000 it is not 2x the 2080, it's like 70-80% in a best case scenario . It's 20 to 30% faster then the 2080ti at 4k and drops to around 15% at 1080p. The hype was exactly that just hype. You're getting the same generational improvement you saw with last gen only at prices they should have always been.

[@mintynuggets]

I literally lived off the 200ge in my dad's build during our 6 month quarantine, even beat doom eternal at 20 fps!

[@19PURGER86]

Yeahhhh, you should change thermal paste now and clean the coolers... It's probably full of dust with no thermal paste there... And it's probably going on 80 C without doing anything😂😂

[@CaveyMoth]

Me with my RTX 2060: "Man, I'm so tired of 1080p 144hz."

[@DodgerX]

@@CaveyMoth Me with my GT 710: "Man,I'm so tired of 144p 60hz"

[@mintynuggets]

PURGER 86' I was getting 60c under full load lol.

[@19PURGER86]

@@mintynuggets lol

[@gone2261]

4:47 are we gonna talk about his GPU usage or.....

[@vallfeld6217]

I was just about to comment on it 😂

[@jamiegaming-ms8xl]

looks legit to me

[@AmarEcd1233]

That happens to me too lol, I just figure 67000 means 67%

[@dapz]

I knew when I kept getting steam notifications that you were playing a few different games within a short time span you were making a vid :)

[@potatoplayz7944]

Mad man

[@startedtech]

1:59 I think I have PTSD from LTT, I was bracing myself for a sponsor cutaway

[@henryatkinson1479]

Welcome to "Why MacBook does not work" the video. The biggest part of laptop performance is thermals.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yeah! Why cant all laptops have Hyper 212 evos strapped to them? 😋

[@henryatkinson1479]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Or just reasonable laptop coolers. To be fair, recent performance machines have vapor chamber coolers and proper fans, but most thin-and-lights make huge compromises.

[@virtualtools_3021]

@@henryatkinson1479 what about a pentium 4 thick n heavy laptop? 10.6 pounds!

[@deathisnear1616]

everyone: rtx 3080 also everyone: 11th gen intel cpu Dawid: Lets overclock a mobile apu edit: stupid apple users: iphone 12

[@Hiramekiza]

I doubt Nvidia would send him a video card to benchmark. :( I'd love to see it, but his suite of games is... very limited.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@Hiramekiza Hahaha!! Rude.

[@CaveyMoth]

11th gen Intel CPUs? How about Zen 3?

[@BonusCrook]

Featuring Apple tm pro motion increased refresh rate technology never before seen (on iphone)

[@deathisnear1616]

@@BonusCrook what are u saying

[@ReCoil_010]

just a little tip, in afterburner you can select "enable unified gpu usage monitoring" so the igpu will display the correct percentage instead of the 60000% Love your videos... keep up the good work!

[@raven4k998]

it's so tiny it's so little🤣🤣🤣

[@aisle9]

RTX thirty-whatsie? We've got mobile APUs to overclock here, people!

[@filenotfound__3871]

Noone: IGPU in this laptop: 65536% ENTERING HYPER SPEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@rafaelhornschemeyer5984]

I wonder when amd is fixing this bug.

[@ingmar89]

Everybody: RTX3080!!! Dawid: let's overclock a mobile CPU

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Mobile APUs need love too.

[@DrMuFFinMan]

If their is anything we can take from this video it's that we need more tower coolers on our laptop's.

[@90lancaster]

It actually crossed my mind in the age of 3D printing someone could 3D print an insert skirt to make the lap top thicker and then add a fan too it, assuming he can figure out a means to power it that is.

[@pf100andahalf]

You should sell upside down coverless laptops with a cpu cooler just sitting on it.

[@metrotechguru5863]

This could definitely start a new trend. I'm waiting for Dell to turn one out soon.

[@draineddd]

I actually have that same laptop just with a ryzen 5 3500U and 8GB of RAM. It's fine for schoolwork and light gaming. I got it for $350 on sale.

[@CaveyMoth]

I think I remember seeing that sale. What a deal, man.

[@Deuteriumaddict]

That would be quite powerful

[@Nathan-te7qr]

Just wondering could you try pushing a desktop apu to the limits? Like overclocking the 3400g paired with 4133mhz cas 16 ram?

[@madhumitasarkar9125]

Shouldn't we use the same capacities of ram to get the best performance in APUs(i.e.4+4=8gb)?

[@_K.A.R.]

DDTS: I added 16GB of RAM additionally to the soldered 4GB VIDEO: hmm, let me confuse you, I say it is 18GB + 2GB :P

[@センナ-h4c]

18gb for the whole system and 2gb as VRAM for the Vega 3

[@gaijinkuri684]

This is the real content we are after.

[@InimicusSolitus]

This was more interesting than all the RTX 3000 videos! (new GPU is faster, who knew??)

[@CaveyMoth]

You increasing the wattage of the APU is the opposite of me trying to reduce the wattage of my i7 10750H oven.

[@logwhitley]

I would say this coverage is on a par with Gamers Nexus

[@dannyd902]

Dawid flexing his AquaFPS shirt lmao

[@nekoriwa1991]

If my GPU (A 1080ti) tried 65536% on GTA V, I could be playing at some real life graphics. Mother of god. I wouldn't need to upgrade for years. 2:56 by the way lol

[@CaveyMoth]

Imagine that with the VR mods.

[@BenchClips]

Early gang?

[@D3PeXoR]

4:25 installing RAM with plugged battery !?

[@SummonerArthur]

I thoyght the same... Wtf?

[@FodrMichalych]

Fan is spinning so power was on too.

[@PinkyTech]

I think this whole setup seems legit AF! Tome to rip apart some laptops!!

[@thegamingxpress8098]

Lowspecgamer be like:Interesting let’s see if I can overclock the hell out of an intel atom

[@jakeclabaugh4579]

Every other tech user: 3080 review time!!!! Make sure to set aside 3 hours to get the exact same content!!! David: laptop gaming seems like a relevant topic

[@valentinvas6454]

5:22 "Let's see what happens if we take it from 15 watts to 25 watts" At this point I wasn't looking at the screen and a few seconds later I heard the explosion sound effect and I thought the laptop actually blowed up LOL

[@elsasslotharingen7507]

The system auto-allocates RAM to the GPU. In terms of memory, the limitation here isn't the *amount* of RAM, but it's *bandwith* Dual-channel CPU RAM just isn't optimal for GPU operation. And, of course, you can also only get so much from three Vega cores.

[@thepezfeo]

You can run many PC fans at anything from 5v to 12v, so you should be able to power them with a usb port or cell phone power cable for low-RPM.... or find a 9v or 12v "wall-wart" power cord from something like an old cordless landline phone for mid/ high RPM.

[@jayp_2023]

I own a Ryzen based laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 330S-15ARR with a Ryzen 5 2500u and Vega 8) and find 720p is a better resolution for games.

[@TENSE1983videos]

that's how i used to play gta v before building a core 2 quad q9505 gtx 660 pc

[@rodrigofilho1996]

What about Ryzen Master? That software has lots of cool settings...

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Yeah Ryzen master would have been great, but unfortunately it didn't recognize the 3200U.

[@TheNiteNinja19]

When I was in college back in 2008 I had a pretty hot running HP pavilion dv6809 wm, so with the use of pizza boxes and a air hockey table fan, I built a channeling contraption that pushed air through cardboard tubes up into the intake of the laptop to keep it cool. It worked.

[@enginepoweredfun3564]

This video helped me so much I have a full gaming pc but a cheap laptop. This helped my performance so much for traveling. Thank you :)

[@eriknelson5585]

Missed opportunity to use a 360mm aio 😪

[@tothmatyasbalint3841]

I know that desktop ryzen APUs like the 3400g, can utilise high frequency ram (3200mhz) quite well, and that it boosts performance substantially. Is it the case with mobile ryzen APUs too? Because I was surprised to find out that even the more expensive zenbooks are shipped with 2400 mhz to 2666 mhz ram, if I remember correctly.

[@GeneralA01]

RX Vega 11 is OP. It seems to get higher fps than the GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 and the RX 550 4GB GDDR5.

[@zetsubou3704]

Isn't that something Vega 8 can do as well if OC'd ?

[@GeneralA01]

@@zetsubou3704 Yeah but imagine how much further you could also get with vega 11 if you OC'd it.

[@MalumMors]

YOOOOOOOOOO HE GOT DA FRESH AQUA FPS SHIRT how has no one pointed this out

[@DoomGuy9001-MK4]

A true overclocker always uses an aftermaket cooler. Even if it is a tower cooler on a laptop CPU. High clock speeds = high benchmark results.

[@CaveyMoth]

But surely, he could have mounted a waterblock to it somehow.

[@DoomGuy9001-MK4]

@@CaveyMoth This may have added an extra FPS or 2 to the games.

[@RuruFIN]

Ah, reminds me when back in the day people MacGyvered CPU coolers to graphics cards :)

[@MECHU20054]

Me using intel stock cooler on my I5 9400f😐😐

[@thatguy4709]

149th!!!

[@ryanmalin]

Breath of fresh air. All I saw was unavailable 3080 videos and benchmarks. I've had my fill of the hype. Thanks for just being creative and doing your own thing.

[@joschaugustenborgnielsen2366]

I would actually love to see this done to a gaming laptop now. Just to see how much they get held back by their stock cooling solutions.

[@lonewolfsstuck]

Are we ignoring that 65,536% GPU use?

[@Luckysury333]

I have the same laptop with Ryzen 5 3500U.....so.....

[@Luckysury333]

Please make a video how allocate more VRAM for iGPU

[@thepezfeo]

I thought most (all) mobile CPUs were soldered to the mobo, but last week I was going to change the thermal paste and noticed it is a socket'd CPU. I'm going to swap the i3-2310m (2.1ghz) to a i5-2540m (2.6ghz, 3.3ghz turbo) this weekend, both CPUs are 2c/4t and 35w but I don't know if this laptop can properly cool the new CPU... I figure if I can run it at 2.4ghz w/o overheating it's worth the app. $14 upgrade. EDIT: New CPU runs fine at same temps (79°c)... R20 score went from 378 (@2095mhz) to 566 (@3093mhz)

[@Deuteriumaddict]

Ya they stopped shortly after tho

[@elliothunter2579]

Holy crap, the jank level is off the scale. Thanks for giving me a good laugh on an otherwise very "meh" day off from work :D

[@soumyadeepmitrayo94]

This is the most practical cooling solution i have ever seen for a laptop😆😆

[@SirNickyT]

Oh thank god... I can't take another 3080 review right now. Thank you for saving me Dawid.

[@armpistolguy435]

Ah yes, budget Linus

[@potatoplayz7944]

So I'm upgrading my computer, will the RTX 3070, Ryzen 9 3900x, and 16GB of ram be a good combo?

[@technicalfool]

Seems about right. 32GB if you want to be sure your games will survive packing a ton of mods into them, or if you're also running other things at the same time. Though 16GB is sufficient for just plug-it-in-and-play games. If anything the 3900x might even be overkill for "expensive games console" PCs, but you won't be disappointed in any case. Also make sure that RAM is good stuff. CL16/3200 minimum and make sure you turn XMP on in the BIOS, buy a matched pair and make sure you put them in the right motherboard slots to be running in dual-channel mode. Or play it safe and get a matched quad-pack to fill all the slots, depending on whether it's about the same price anyway. You could go for CL15/3200 or CL16/3600, but you're really hitting diminishing returns for overkill amounts of money by that point. The 3900x and 3070 will be doing all the work, just don't go hamstringing them both with some awful CL18/2400 or something. And don't underestimate the importance of a good 80+ Gold or Platinum-rated power supply.

[@Dark.Shingo]

If Dawid was a mechanic instead of a computers enthusiast we would have a Mobile Homer by now.

[@aryantiwari1945]

just run it at 720p

[@Quryam]

Wouldn't be that interesting

[@stellatecar7634]

You should have downloaded notebook fan control in the first tests to max out the fan speeds

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

Your face on thumbnail is funny.

[@Antiliv.]

Damn bro, I see you repping the Loot Lord's merch

[@ConceptCentral]

Cat.

[@russianspy1234]

Love these random overclock videos that aren't all about the best of the best tech

[@keeperofthegood]

It's an APU you could try the pass-through video card :)

[@EthanSeville]

65536% 😏😂 8bit registers 👌

[@arnavranjan1913]

Low spec gamer wants to know your location.

[@originaldk5436]

Not what I would call playable I used to play runescape on my cruddy laptop at like 15fps :P

[@CaveyMoth]

I used to play RuneScape on a Pentium 4 and CRT monitor.

[@claxtoncurtis811]

me: runs forza horizon 4 on my vega 11 igpu at 30 to 47 fps and feels good about it guys with a gtx 1650: um your not the king tho.....

[@timpatrick564]

Stuff like this just makes me mad the 4000 line of APU's from Ryzen are just being sold to OEMs for system builds and weren't released like the 3200G, 3400G, etc..

[@wyterabitt2149]

They aren't released yet, what are you talking about?

[@timpatrick564]

@@wyterabitt2149 Uh that's what I said. I said they're being sold to OEMs for system builds and not being released for user builds... I'd love to have a Renoir chip, but as I said they're only being sold to OEMS.

[@ram89572]

The biggest performance increase I saw that someone might actually do if they really only had this laptop to game on is just that RAM upgrade. Doing that was just a night and day difference.

[@netnael.m]

Do it with the new ryzen 4000 series apu

[@naryan76]

Cat picks "Beef Cake" cooler.. *me adds to list of Cat approved items*

[@anerror9926]

Look at those GPU percentages

[@cookie7993]

"Pushing an mobile" Nice grammar! 👌

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

Hahaha!! Oops. I'll fix that in post. 😅

[@cookie7993]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff all's good!

[@tdm3bros]

"3200U" sounds like Wii U

[@OTechnology]

Looks like Asus borrowed Apple's wireless cooling idea

[@pierregrobbelaar9116]

I want one of those 😁.You know back in the day i changed a laptop cpu out for a better one even though Intel said it's impossible :D

[@Snoopmasta]

18 + 2 was the cutest mistake ever 😊

[@robgeib1723]

So...can you try the cooler on the existing heat pipes or did you and I zoned out?

[@CaveyMoth]

I wonder if he could build some sort of dock that allows him to take the laptop off of the cooler.

[@kingeling]

I'm sure some Chinese cooler makers could benefit from making laptop adapters for desktop coolers. Why is this not a thing yet? I don't have a place or the tools to DIY this type of stuff cleanly.

[@Chiquitito1201]

Damn that's cool

[@FlyingPigeon-00001]

Manufacturers soldering on slow 2400/2666MHz ram really limits the APUs performance. Being able to replace all the ram with overall faster memory would be fantastic. I want upgradable laptops back.

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

so many laptops run in single channel and that includes some gaming laptops.... and i do not understand why I had an ASUS tuf gaming it had 8gb of ram, I added another 8gb and I saw about a 20% increase in performance, it should've had two 4gb sticks not 1 8gb

[@electricnick260]

Who benchmarks low end hardware WITHOUT testing Skyrim, the game that could run on a potato under normal circumstances? XD

[@rohit.m]

I liked Your video very much. This is a bit different from all that highend crap from other very famous KZbinrs. I hope you reach 1million subs very soon. ❤️❤️❤️

[@JeffTheITGuy]

Alright Dawid , you win, I’ll subscribe. Geez quit hounding me.

[@TheGauges420]

Hey that 1080p Gigabyte monitor at $250 isn't a good deal. I just got a G27Q a few weeks back, off Tech Deals recommendation... Well, it's a 27" 1440p 144hz (165hz OC) 1ms IPS panel, for just $300+tax... I think I'll stick with mine lol.

[@diksha9926]

Bro i have a question my GPU is rx580 .. when i overclock my GPU from 1350mgz to 1420mgz,it always crashes....but it should not happen as it is a small overclock..and also after overclock i see artifacts like full screen purple....any suggestions...

[@999-y7j3x]

You got cardboard table? hah

[@gentarofourze]

You think this laptop is bad? I paid £500 for a AMD laptop 2 years ago that struggled to get 10fps on SAN ANDREAS!

[@justgabevr]

lol did not expect this, shocked it didn't catch fire

[@matuzaato]

Fuck I opened KZbin to watch the reviews for the 3080, but saw you had uploaded a video and had to see this first, love your content