AMD hasn’t offered any other information, and it’s unclear what the new CPUs would bring to the table that gaming laptops require, given that graphics chips, not CPUs, are generally where most of the gaming oomph comes from these days. Still, CPU performance matters, especially when trying to feed a high refresh rate panel with lower-resolution frames — and the type of player who buys an “extreme gaming laptop” could worry about even a modest FPS advantage.
