If you’ve ever cursed your laptop for being too slow when performing an important or intensive task, imagine what it would be like to work on a beast like the REV-9, the world’s first laptop equipped with a 64-core AMD EPYC CPU and an RTX 4080 desktop graphics card.
REV-9, from Chinese firm Xinjuneng Technology, is available in two variants, each with a different motherboard: one with an EPYC 7713 CPU based on the Zen 3 architecture, and another with an EPYC 9554 CPU based on Zen 4.
The REV-9 features a 17.3-inch QHD display with a 240Hz refresh rate and 100% sRGB color space. It is also available with a 4K display with a 120Hz refresh rate. A dedicated 3.5-inch screen displays system information including temperature, frequency and power consumption.
Advanced liquid cooling
Server processors, like the one used in the REV-9, are known for their high power consumption and that’s why the laptop comes with an advanced liquid cooling system. This uses a non-aqueous, electronically fluorinated coolant that is not conductive, so that any leaks do not affect the electronic components.
As you can see in the video of De-P1S below and the image above, the REV-9 is far from the most attractive laptop in the world, but its capabilities are undeniable. According to De-P1SXinjuneng Technology says the REV-9 (with the EPYC 7713 processor) scored nearly 49,000 points in the Cinebench R23 program.
The company says of its powerful laptop: “The most powerful processor available in portable computers (laptops) is the i9-13980hx, which has only 24 cores. However, our company has developed a 64-core, 17-inch laptop with desktop graphics card and built-in liquid cooling. The multi-core performance is more than double that of the i9 13980hx. The overall thickness of the laptop is 4.6 cm, while the main body is only 3.9 cm thick. It comes with a desktop-level RTX4080 16G graphics card (whose gaming performance surpasses the RTX4090 16G mobile version), offering high performance and excellent portability.”
Pricing details haven’t been released yet, but if De-P1S points out that the EPYC 9554 CPU alone costs between $7,000 and $9,000, so the laptop will be very expensive.
However, this is just the beginning. Xinjuneng Technology says it is developing a variety of products, including (among others) a dual-socket, 512-core 17-inch laptop. There is no information on when this will become available, but rest assured we will address this when it does.