JohnIL
Bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 with a Ryzen…
Bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 with a Ryzen 5625u CPU which I thought was a good performing ultralight laptop. However, after some use both on AC and battery I noticed a significant decrease in performance on battery which was verified with some benchmarks and a couple articles that also verified this. Apparently this is by design to improve battery life by reducing performance. There is no way to obtain similar performance on battery as with AC. No settings can achieve this and your stuck with a lessor performing laptop on battery. I am all for options to save battery if that is what I desire, but if I want maximum performance I expect an option to have that as well. Seems to me this is a undesirable trade off just to get better battery life. At the very least it should be properly disclosed to the buyer that performance is degraded in battery to enhance battery life. I have yet to find a way to override this performance reduction under battery and think that a setting should be offered that overrides this power reduction if desired. None of the OEM, Bios, or Windows setting seem to have any effect on this even in performance mode settings. Its really a bit of bait and switch where AMD mobile CPU's have not become more efficient then Intel, they have only reduced performance and power draw on battery to make it look like they have. I won't ever buy another AMD product.



