Question ASUS Laptop Surprise

[exoterra]

Howdy folks, long-time member here, but been a long time since I posted - former gamer turned tech founder, so the wheel turns.

I'll cut right to it, back in the world of desktops I knew it all, custom build to custom build, but I use laptops for work, and I work a lot.

I've been using an ASUS Zenbook 15 for the last 4 years - sys specs as follows:

https://imgur.com/a/fkSDQJI

But it started having some unrepairable problems lately, so I bought a new one:

https://imgur.com/a/SRu8Qxo

This new laptop, while running on the Ryzen 7... seems to be performing worse than my old laptop. Did I just unwittingly buy a downgrade?

 

[punkncat]

I have read and watched some accounts that state there is a small amount more latency in relation to (AM4) Ryzen against (specifically) 11th gen Intel. I am not aware it exists in relation to 10th but that is the same socket and such.

Aside from that aspect if you just got the pc it is going to be performing tasks and updating and such and so on. I would expect a new machine to have some issue with that. Might even have to consider looking through to see what is running the background and so on. I will say that IMO between 10 and 11 the memory management and ability to 'sleep' things that aren't being used is quite superior in 11. The aspect I do like about 10 is being actually able to go to "background apps" and simply turn things off. You can do so in 11 but it is more unnecessarily involved.

It would only be fair to ask as to what experience or program is feeling this way. Can you actually see results that indicate less performance? Seat of the pants?

 

[exoterra]

I have read and watched some accounts that state there is a small amount more latency in relation to (AM4) Ryzen against (specifically) 11th gen Intel. I am not aware it exists in relation to 10th but that is the same socket and such.

Aside from that aspect if you just got the pc it is going to be performing tasks and updating and such and so on. I would expect a new machine to have some issue with that. Might even have to consider looking through to see what is running the background and so on. I will say that IMO between 10 and 11 the memory management and ability to 'sleep' things that aren't being used is quite superior in 11. The aspect I do like about 10 is being actually able to go to "background apps" and simply turn things off. You can do so in 11 but it is more unnecessarily involved.

It would only be fair to ask as to what experience or program is feeling this way. Can you actually see results that indicate less performance? Seat of the pants?

Fair observations and questions.
I often have many browser tabs open simultaneously, on my old laptop as well.
The threshold for open tabs on the new laptop seems to be a magnitude less, although I'm not able to measure precisely since the old one is dead, I would estimate roughly half the amount of open tabs before performance is impacted.
Notion lags when I scroll.
Slack lags when I switch between channels and chats.
Figma lags a lot, even when less browser tabs are open.
Opening new chrome windows (and tabs) lags so bad that sometimes my typing doesn't appear and lags and then occasionally my browser has been crashing altogether.

I find it a little absurd that my new laptop is lagging so much by comparison to the old when multi-processing.
Maybe there are new system settings I'm not aware of that can help manage this better?

 

[punkncat]

Hmm, are you monitoring temperatures?

I see the old laptop had 16GB of RAM. How much does the new one have and is it 1X or 2X sticks?

The scrolling lag could possibly be a difference in the monitors refresh rate. Is there a significant different in the resolution?

Sure doesn't present well, does it?

 

[exoterra]

Hmm, are you monitoring temperatures?

I see the old laptop had 16GB of RAM. How much does the new one have and is it 1X or 2X sticks?

The scrolling lag could possibly be a difference in the monitors refresh rate. Is there a significant different in the resolution?

Sure doesn't present well, does it?

[vulgarity redacted]... why I didn't look at the memory
new laptop 8gb, old laptop 16gb - that's a facepalm, completely overlooked that when purchasing.

Resolution and refresh rate and stuff all the same. Old one was 15.6", new one is 15.6"