forum thread Posted by Suryasis • Yesterday
May 21, 2025 3:17 PM
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forum thread Posted by Suryasis • Yesterday
May 21, 2025 3:17 PM
HP ZBook Ultra 14 G1a Mobile Workstation: 14" 2.8K 120Hz OLED Touch, Ryzen AI Max Pro 395, 128GB LPDDR5X, 2TB Gen4 SSD, Thunderbolt4, Win11P, 3 yrs Warranty @ $3248.05 + F/S
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Issue isn't with price, but I'm pretty sure that they should have included USB4v2 (since I don't think a separate Thunderbolt 5 controller is possible) and an additional m.2 slot if they really wanted to target the "portable AI workstation" segment.
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For example, it is the 1st x86 platform to use Unified System Memory across all the components inside the SOC, CPU, GPU and NPU, like a Macbook M series, meaning CPU and GPU can access whatever available memory at any point of time, unlike manual assignment of some portion, which increases latency and add duplication of Read/write operations.
For AI Tasks, you can actually dedicate 3/4th of the memory just to the GPU, which is 96GB in this 128GB model and higher than any current Laptop or even Desktop consumer Graphics cards, costing several thousands of dollar. That enables it to place huge LLMs inside the memory directly, hence increasing the performance, even better than current RTX 5080/5090, when you use 32B or more parameter models.
The CPU performance is in another league, because it uses 16 Zen 5 Cores , no Zen 5c and the performance is over Core i7-14900HX or Arrow Lake Core i9-275HX, while consuming a fraction of power.
In Power consumption, the whole SOC maxed out at 120W (This device has around 100W limit) which is literally the same TDP of GPU like RTX 4070. Because of that, this SOC can shine on Thin & Light devices like this without sacrificing performance.