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It's finally here out of the box USB for performance
on Ryzen laptops.
Peter Gordon on with PC World.
Here in front of me is the new Razer Blade 14.
Obviously it's a 14 inch laptop.
The main claim to fame though, is it has AMD's
new Ryzen nine 7948 processor
that is the world's first CPU x86, so it will be shipping with dedicated A.I.
of course in ryzen I exciting stuff on that.
That's going to come later.
What I'm actually excited about here though, is the lowly usb-c port,
and that is because the Razer blade 14 to me is
this is the first Ryzen laptop out of the box with Usb-C for support.
Yes, I know you're saying, Gordon, I've seen you demonstrate USB
before on Ryzen laptops months and months ago.
Well, let me give you some bad news.
I've never seen the final bios to enable that USB before sport.
I've tested USB support on other ryzen laptops,
but even on those it was only beta bios support this.
Razer Blade 14 though, comes out of the box with USB four working.
In fact, I'm going to show it to working by plugging in several Thunderbolt
three, several Thunderbolt four and even a USB for two device.
So to start off, let's use this lovely ten gig Sonnet
Solo ten g Ethernet adapter.
I know you're wondering why this thing is so giant is because it is a ten gig
Ethernet adapter.
And of course, to do that back then, the only way you could use it was with
Thunderbolt three.
So this is Thunderbolt three
Using Ethernet, we're going to plug it into the left USB
C port on the Razer blade 14 and we are going to
watch the Ethernet shop because we have no Ethernet.
I didn't hook up to wireless.
It's going to actually
have to download drivers for it, which I did earlier, but it does work.
There we go.
So as you can see, we have internet.
We'll browse here.
So let's just see.
We're just going to prove to you that it works
again.
So we are basically browsing over a thunderbolt.
Three using this TANGUY Ethernet adapter plugged into a gigabit Ethernet
so it works.
Let's go ahead and disconnect it.
By the way, Thunderbolt devices, you should eject before you pull them out.
As you can see, we see our eject solo ten Gee Thunderbolt three edition.
Pull that out.
That works.
Next up, this is a SanDisk G-Drive.
It is a pure thunderbolt three drive.
You have seen some combo drives sort of cheat with by using Thunderbolt
three and USB support.
This only works if you have Thunderbolt three basically made to work on Macs
and Intel laptops. They have Thunderbolt three.
You can see the thunderbolt symbol on here.
We're going to plug it into that left port again.
We hear the click.
It launches you basically because this is created for a mac environment,
you basically have to install software to be able to work on Macs with the
HFC plus. That's included on there.
But I am actually now seeing my Thunderbolt support.
If I plug this into a standard USB drive Usb-C port with only USB support,
I get nothing
if I plug it into Thunderbolt gets a port and if I plug in two USB before it works
as well.
Let's go in and eject it.
SanDisk Extreme Pro two terabyte eject that works.
Next up is this.
This is the old w c mini stack s t x.
It basically has space for a hard drive.
It also has a two terabyte end to drive mounted in here.
It's shaped like a mac because it's made to sit underneath a mac.
It's made for the Mac world again.
But we are going to use this to plug in to our Usb4 port using Thunderbolt
and we
should be able to see the the two terabyte drive in here.
There we go.
We're actually seeing the UW C set up to run on windows as well as run on Mac.
And again, it's working because we have our Thunderbolt three
device and actually this is Thunderbolt four.
I misspoke here.
I want to point out this is actually Thunderbolt four.
I verified it visually.
You can see in our other video
because it's actually using Intel's Goshen Ridge controller.
That is Thunderbolt four.
But as you can see on USB for hardware
on this Razer blade with the ryzen inside, it is working.
Let's go in to check it out again, which is what you should do.
List eject the mini stack boom, click that out.
What do you think?
Let's do an egpu next.
Now this is a little strange because this Razer blade 14
has a GeForce RTX 4070 laptop GPU.
And here, by the way, it's about 140 TGP.
We'll get into performance numbers
on this laptop in another video, but for now we want to see what happens
when we plug in this Razer core X is it is an older
cabinet reusing thunderbolt three as you can see I plugged it in the fan
start to spin this pulls up the razer utility as you can see.
We can click on that and you can see the RTX 3080
that is in that core x is now enabled so you can run that in the onboard
GeForce RTX 4070 laptop CPU is basically not not doing anything
because you would want to switch to your external GPU.
Obviously you could put in a different GPU.
We just threw in a 3080 because we had one sitting around.
The final bonus thing we're going to do is actually use a real USB for device.
Everything you see in here is basically Thunderbolt three or Thunderbolt four
or Thunderbolt four, by the way, is supposedly the same as USB before.
This is actually the Zink Drive.
This is a pre-production drive that's actually going to be sent
back to them any day now.
But I want to hold on to it just to run it a little bit longer.
This is using an AC media USB four controller,
unlike all the others that essentially use Intel silicon,
this is basically third party
USB four as well as USB four.
So we're going to take disk drive,
we're going to plug it into the left side of the unit.
Let's work on Oh, there we go.
The drive is there
as expected and let's actually run Crystaldiskmark.
So, you know, typically when we run some thunderbolt three drives,
they may be limited to like 3.23 gigs In a second.
We're expecting to see more like drive actually claims a WD drive in here
with this AC media will hit about 3.8 gig reads Here we go 3.8
exactly what they are claiming and is actually
what I've seen in other laptops that actually use a faster thunderbolt.
Four or USB four controllers in our write speeds actually.
And this is just saying I have seen this on
some other rise in laptops through the right speeds are actually
interestingly better than I've seen on thunderbolt three enclosures
and we are seeing about 3.8 gig reads, 3.8 gig rights.
So very, very good speeds out of the these like drive
we running USB for to an actual USB before port.
But again the big news is I didn't have to install a beta BIOS.
I basically turned on the laptop, plugged in my thunderbolt three,
Thunderbolt four and Usb4 drives my Egpu it all worked.
And hopefully, hopefully this is the experience
people will be seeing as we go forward on the AMD Ryzen timeline that we're on.
Instead of having to deal with finding a BIOS for it,
updating it and crossing your fingers and hoping we're working.
So definitely the road to USB for being a reality
on AMD platforms is finally, finally here.