If you are familiar with recent processor market research reports, you may remember that AMD officially defeated Intel processors in desktop processor market share and successfully counterattacked. But when it comes to laptops, although the Ryzen 4000 series is very powerful and is far better than competing products in terms of performance and power consumption, the market share figures have limited changes, and Intel is still ahead of AMD. However, with the launch of the Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors, the market share of both parties may change dramatically. foreign media PCWorld Specifically for the newly launched Ryzen 5000 series laptops, the benchmark test shows that the current Ryzen 5000 is very powerful, and the flagship R9 5980HS has almost unrivaled performance with a power consumption of 35 W:
▲AMD Ryzen 5000 mobile processor is officially launched, almost unrivaled in its class
The Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors were officially launched not long ago, and some laptop manufacturers have also launched corresponding products. For example, the ASUS ROG Flow X13, a gaming laptop with both built-in independent graphics and external graphics, attracted a lot of attention at the CES conference. This laptop is also one of the relatively high-visibility Ryzen 5000 series laptops at this stage, so it naturally attracts more attention. Especially the part about the performance of the new processor.
Ryzen 5000 inherits the past and suppresses opponents with powerful performance
Similar to the previous generation, Ryzen 5000 series processors have powerful performance and extremely low power consumption. Therefore, even with such a fast processor, if you put it into a laptop with a 13-inch body and a weight of only about 1.3 kilograms, you don’t need to worry too much about heat dissipation issues limiting performance. In fact, the Ryzen 4000 series can already do this, such as ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptops can be considered an example. In addition to its cool appearance, this machine also has a calm and powerful processor core. The two complement each other and arouse discussions among laptop gamers.
The mobile version of the Ryzen 5000 series is different from the desktop version of the Ryzen 5000 series. The mobile version can be said to be a specially designed chip. In addition to the latest Zen 3 core, it also has improved internal graphics chips and memory controllers. Power consumption has also been improved. In terms of manufacturing process, it is TSMC’s 7nm process.
Interestingly, the pin positions of the mobile version of the Ryzen 5000 series processors are actually the same as those of the previous generation. This lack of compatibility for users does not make much sense. In addition to finding opportunities to save money for manufacturers interested in launching Ryzen 5000 laptops, it also makes the development of this new processor more difficult. Without this restriction, perhaps the mobile version of Ryzen 5000 can bring out greater potential.
Performance test
Strictly speaking, it is difficult to truly measure the performance of a certain component through horizontal comparison of laptops.PCWorld The comparison laptops found are not necessarily all made by ASUS, and the levels of memory and display chips also vary. Therefore, they did not comment on the gaming performance of the laptop and only focused on the CPU performance.
Therefore, the tests are mainly based on CPU-centered test software such as Cinebench series and 7Zip compression test. However, no matter how careful you are, sometimes the influence of the GPU will still cause flaws in the test results. The author believes that this is inevitable.
The protagonist is ASUS ROG Flow X13, equipped with Ryzen 9 5980HS processor, GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU and no eGPU installed. The following is the control group:
- MSI Prestige 14 Evo: Core i7-1185G7 built-in Iris Xe display chip, 16GB LPDDR4X/4267 memory, 512GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, 14-inch FHD screen, 1.22 kg
- MSI Prestige 14 (10th Gen): Core i7-10710U, GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q, 16GB LPDDR3/2133 memory, 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, 14-inch 4K screen, 1.27 kg
- Lenovo Yoga Slim 7: Ryzen 4800U built-in Radeon display chip, 16GB LPDDR4X/4267 memory, 512GB PCIe 3.0 SSD, 14-inch FHD screen, 1.4 kg
- ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14: Ryzen 9 4900HS (some charts are mistakenly listed as “4800HS”), GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q, 16GB DDR4/3200 memory, 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, 14-inch FHD screen, 1.63 kg
- ACER Predator Triton 500: Core i7-10750H CPU, GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q, 32GB DDR4/3200 memory, 1TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, 15.6-inch 300Hz FHD screen, 2.09 kg
- Aorus 17: Core i7-10870H CPU, GeForce RTX 3080 max-Q, 32GB memory, 17.3-inch 300Hz FHD screen, 2.72 kg
First up is Maxon’s Cinebench R20. This test generally compares to multi-core performance. The ROG Flow X13 with performance mode set to Turbo easily wins, even faster than the larger Aorus 17 (Core i7-10870H):
▲Actually, the performance is about 50-50 without turning on Turbo.
The updated version of Cinebench R23 tests are more stringent, but it seems that there is still a gap here, showing that Ryzen 9 5980HS is very capable:
▲Cinebench R23 takes longer to render than R20. Perhaps this is how the gap between the two parties is widened.
Next is the V-Ray Next test, which is a well-known ray tracing test software. In this test, the Ryzen 9 5980HS is still powerfully crushed:
▲Although turning on light tracking on a laptop will still cause serious performance impairment, it is still one of the important indicators of future computer performance.
Next is the Corona Renderer test, which is a relatively neutral immersive renderer software. Here, Ryzen 9 5980HS is also a complete victory:
▲So far AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS still leads steadily
Of course, here you can find that the previous tests mainly focus on multi-core performance, and multi-core performance has been AMD’s strongest advantage recently, but the single-core performance still needs to be tested to determine the difference. Therefore, Cinebench R20 is used to test single-core performance:
▲From the perspective of single-core performance, Prestige 14 Evo’s Core i7-1185G7 actually performs well. Probably between the Ryzen 9 5980HS with and without Turbo.
Next comes the compression software, which is the test part of 7Zip. Here are also measured results based on the multi-core and single-core modes:
▲The multi-core performance is obviously an overwhelming victory for Ryzen 9 5980HS
▲The single-core performance is not much different, with Core i7-1185G7 and Ryzen 9 5980HS almost tied.
HandBrake audio and video conversion software is a free conversion software that many people are familiar with, and it happens to be the favorite software for many hardware testing media. Naturally, HandBrake’s conversion time PK is indispensable here. The chart here is different from the previous one, the shorter the better:
▲AMD wins without any doubt here. However, the performance of Core i7-1185G7 is also quite good, basically it has almost tied the score.
The Office 365 test is mainly based on PCMark 10. This test mainly simulates the usage and performance of various office software. This part is actually somewhat beneficial to Intel, but AMD is very aggressive and is still trying to catch up in this area, and is generally not far behind:
▲Although few people care about office efficiency, changing to a better computer always makes work go more smoothly.
In addition to Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud software is also a software that many artists and audiovisual workers need to operate frequently. In order to test the real situation as much as possible, PugetBench was chosen to test several major Adobe Creative Cloud software.
The first is Premiere, which is almost essential for video editors. Since Premiere itself has GPU acceleration function, in the test, it is not so much that the CPU output is much, but that the GPU has a huge impact. Although ROG Flow X13 is equipped with the powerful Ryzen 9 5980HS, without eGPU support, it can only use the GTX 1650 Max-Q GPU inside the notebook for testing. Therefore, in this test, the Aorus 17 equipped with GeForce RTX 3080 max-Q is the winner. However, when the GPU performance is not much different, the key to victory or defeat is the number of CPU cores:
▲With the support of GPU acceleration function, even if the processor is slightly inferior, you can still have the best editing experience
Photoshop is also a common image editing software, so powerful that almost every girl must learn to use it to beautify themselves. There is even a colloquial usage like “Photoshop it!” in English, which shows how deeply rooted this software is in people’s hearts. Although it also has GPU acceleration as Premiere, in testing, CPU and memory are relatively more influential:
▲Photoshop test results are mainly affected by CPU performance, GPU has a smaller impact
Lightroom Classic is a photo management software familiar to photographers. It can perform batch editing work to a certain extent. The Classic version is actually the interface of the old version. It is basically the same as the non-Classic version, but the interface has been modified a lot. The test here is to browse hundreds of RAW photo files to test the performance of the hardware. Somewhat similar to Photoshop, Lightroom Classic has more CPU requirements and less GPU requirements. However, Core i7-1185G7 performs better than AMD laptops here:
▲Lightroom Classic test generally has a winner and loser, but Core i7-1185G7 is the one that takes the lead
For those who need to edit photos, Topaz Gigapixel AI should be a photo editing tool that you have the opportunity to use. As its name says, it uses AI technology to help users calculate image information and then output the ideal picture. This technology generally benefits processors with built-in AI acceleration. The test method is to use the software to enlarge an 8-megapixel photo taken by Canon 1D Mark ll N to 6 times. Let’s evaluate the AI performance of these laptops:
▲The MSI Prestige 14 Evo laptop equipped with Core i7-1185G7 and Iris Xe internal display won the first place in this test
Through these tests, it has been seen that Ryzen 9 5980HS is already ahead of its opponents in many projects, but Ryzen 9 5980HS is not invincible and still has shortcomings in some areas. For those who need to edit videos, when purchasing a computer, you need to pay attention to the level of the graphics card and the editing software’s support for GPU acceleration. For people who do moderate to heavy office work or have conversion purposes, choosing a processor is more important than choosing a graphics card. Of course, if your wallet is deep enough, just look at the most expensive and strongest one.
While the Core i7-1185G7 lags slightly behind AMD’s Ryzen processors in most tests, it’s not all a loss. Although the AMD camp has the Ryzen 4000 series with excellent power consumption, the endurance performance of the Ryzen 5000 series is still waiting to be verified. What is certain is that at least Ryzen 5000 still smells good and is still full of power.
Source: KOCPC Chinese