I don't know. According to that NBC review, the CPU performance only seems to be on par with the Broadwell i3's and the GPU performance with i7's, so you can't say they're lying when they they claim it competes with low power i5's.
I'm a bit worried about battery life, however. Those 3 hours the HP Pavilion gets are abysmal. Worse than a gaming laptop with the GTX980M and the 47W i7-4710HQ.
AMD promised "all day unplugged performance" and "8 hours of video playback", yet someone on youtube commented he's only getting 4-5 hours of web browsing and some youtube on his HP Envy which doesn't have a dGPU.
This waiting game they're playing means the Carrizo devices won't get to enjoy their small window of being competitive. Very soon, they will get a in a direct fight with the intel's Skylake which is supposed to bring 30% more battery life and 40-50% more iGPU performance. Even though these claims proved to be false after its desktop release, if a Skylake i5 notebook gives me an extra minute of battery life over a similar Carrizo notebook, Skylake will be my choice without hesitation.