XMG Apex 15 is the first laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D support

The new AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D central processor is a very suitable chip for gaming and in Latest news It seems that the German hardware manufacturer XMG has become the first laptop manufacturer to support this CPU with the XMG Apex 15 Max laptop model.

The chassis and design of this laptop is one of the few mobile computer platforms that can currently support standard AMD Ryzen 5000 desktop processors, but recently, thanks to the BIOS update to AGESA version 1.2.0.7, support for Ryzen 5800X3D has also been applied to this laptop. Is. The XMG Apex 15 Max is a 15.6-inch gaming laptop whose unique feature is support for Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors, thanks to the use of B550 chipset motherboards.

The manufacturer has brought support for Ryzen 7 5800X3D with BIOS update and unique design

As a result, the system is able to support processors of this series and even Ryzen 9 5950X with a TDP of 105 watts. In this regard, thanks to the BIOS update to the new version, this laptop can now also support Ryzen 7 5800X3D. According to benchmarks, the 5800X3D processor inside this laptop is 14% faster than the Ryzen 9 5900X and 30% faster than the AMD Ryzen 7 5700X in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

Unfortunately, this is the only advantage that the processor offers in the chassis of this laptop, and in the single and multi-core Cinebench R20 and R23 benchmarks, this processor has lost to Ryzen 7 5700X and 5900X due to the decrease in clock speed in the 3D VCache model. As a result, the 5800X3D processor should only be considered if the user uses it mostly for gaming.

This laptop also has a high thickness, but this high thickness accommodates the desktop platform and is currently one of the few notebooks that can use AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop chips. The laptop can also be configured with an RTX 3060 or 3070 GPU and supports up to 64GB of 3200MHz DDR4 RAM.

In the storage department, XMG Apex 15 Max has three slots, two of which are M.2 and a 2.5-inch slot for SSD or small HDD. The laptop display also supports IPS panel and 240 Hz refresh rate with 1080p resolution and there is no other configuration option in this section. The charging of this laptop is done through a 230 watt adapter.

For gaming users, this laptop offers one of the best gaming experiences regarding the use of a central processor in video games thanks to the support of the Ryzen 5800X3D processor, and the manufacturer offers the configuration of the laptop with the Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU, but the current owners also They can upgrade to this processor.

For this laptop with AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D configuration, RTX 3060 graphics processor, 16GB Samsung DDR4-3200 RAM and Samsung 980 500GB SSD, users have to pay 1720 euros.