Hi,

At this moment I use an asus rog m16 (year 2022) laptop, but the dpc latency is too much for using at DAW. I made all optimisation with information on the web on this subject.

Anybody have a good experience with a laptop PC (AMD ryzen 7000 or Intel processor i9) in 2023 ?

Thanks

 

Maybe this could help
https://www.notebookcheck.net/DPC-Latency-Ranking-Which-laptops-and-Windows-tablets-offer-the-lowest-latency.504376.0.html

Most reviews don't test DPC and it's really hard to find someone who is willing to buy all these laptops and test them, so really hope someone will chime in with some great news.

if this is worth anything to you, this user found one, it's not as new as you seek, but it's safe buy at least.
https://gearspace.com/board/showpost.php?p=15911810&postcount=18

 

Last edited: Mar 25, 2023

I have a Ryzen 2500u Win 11/32GB RAM laptop running Cubase 12, and the specs are much lower than yours. I get good DPC latency with 3 tweaks.
1. Disable Defender
2. Disable WiFi [Settings > Network & Internet > Advanced Network Settings
3. Use Wise memory Optimizer

 

Yeah you can get very low DPC latency you just need to dig around a bit. Tbh i'd go for Ryzen over Intel if you value battery life, and Intel if you just want raw power at the expense of very very bad battery life, even with 12th gen's big.LITTLE config. All modern solutions from both sides (Ryzen 5k and up, and Intel 11th Gen and up are the oldest you should go for imo) are fantastically powerful for the job of music production and post processing. It's genuinely never been a better time for creators from a hardware perspective.

 

Would also love some help/info too as I'm about to buy a new laptop.
I'm interested in those new Intel 13th gen I9-13980HX 24 Cores. It will be plugged most of the time so I wouldn't care about battery life that much. I assume with this kind of processing power, latency shouldn't be an issue but are there any brands in particular I should avoid?

 

At that point its much less about the brand and much more about how beefy the cooling is, so i'd dig around for teardowns for any laptops that have that CPU, most of the time i9's in a laptop form factor are extraordinarily hot. I imagine this will still be the case given how many E cores they've managed to stuff in there.

 

Might Be Expensive

but this delivers

https://www.gigabyte.com/Laptop/AERO-17-HDR--Intel-11th-Gen#kf




https://www.gigabyte.com/Laptop/AERO-17-HDR--RTX-30-Series#kf

 

did it have the latency problems from the start or did those appear later? my asus g15 is unusable for audio after I reinstalled, tried everything, even tried out brand new g15, had the same problems out of the box.

 

more features = more drivers/services to add to DPC latency

those are mostly:
1) wireless network adapter
2) bluetooth adapter
3) wired network adapter
4) (switchable) graphics card
5) usb host drivers
6) onboard audio drivers

avoiding and disabling those components (in bios directly) would be ideal, but it's not always possible, installing proper drivers for those (not letting Windows get away with generic mediocre drivers)