Since, the beginning Intel has dominated the laptop CPU market space. Due to the efficiency achieved by those CPU's, but in the recent times AMD has done some catching up. Since its (AMD's) Ryzen launch, Intel gained a competitor, that too a fierce one. As, Intel is finding it difficult to shrink its node size, on which its manufactured, whereas AMD Ryzen, has already shrunk its node size to 7 nm(Nano-Meters), and is planning to shrink it further to 5+ nm. Whereas, Intel has been perfecting its 14 nm node. Which now has been so optimized that it is neck and neck with AMD's 7 nm processors.
But, according to us, you should not opt for the current Intel lineup as they are still finding it difficult to shrink the node size of their processors.
Why node size matters?
A general rule of thumb is that the smaller the node size, the better the efficiency of the processor. The reason being that, each of the transistor can be packed more tightly, thus creating a more dense processor which can perform more task at once, thus performing more than the others.
Intel in it's current generation has managed to shrink the node size to 14 nm, but this was not achieved in this generation of processors, as they have been using the same architecture on the same node size from the year 2014. This does not mean that this a bad thing, as they had optimized this node size so much that it is able to compete with AMD's latest 7 nm, imagine what they can achieve with the 7 nm node size. :D
But, we still recommend AMD 4th Generation processors for laptop in 2020, or the upcoming year, due to the same reason that we discussed upon earlier.
A good example would be the ASUS G14, it punches way above its class.
Check it out here.
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