A RYZEN-POWERED PERFORMANCE BEAST
There are plenty of potential competitor systems to
choose for head-to-head performance testing results,
but I selected a group that represents a variety of
physical shapes, components, and prices. They include
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The Maingear Vybe and Velocity Micro Raptor Z55 are
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traditionally shaped, high-end PCs that can do both
gaming and media tasks well thanks to their Core i9-
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this category, but it’s more compact and more expensive
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owes a lot to its impressively small footprint, but I
included it as a rare system bearing the Intel Core i9-
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PRODUCTIVITY AND STORAGE
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developed by the PC benchmark specialists at UL
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processing, spreadsheet work, web browsing, and
videoconferencing. The test generates a proprietary
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meanwhile, has a Storage subtest that we use to assess
the speed of the storage subsystem. This score is
also a proprietary numeric score; again, higher
numbers are better.
This is quite
simply the
highest
result we’ve
ever recorded
on this test,
showing the
raw power of
this chip.