PC World - USA (2020-02)

14 PCWorld FEBRUARY 2020

NEWS AMD’S 7NM RYZEN 4000 LAPTOP CPUS

Ryzen 7 4800U will outrun the Core

i7-1065G7 to the tune of 90 percent in

multi-threaded performance using Maxon’s

Cinebench R20 benchmark. Although Intel

has looked down on using 3D modeling as a

measuring stick for thin and light laptops,

AMD’s performance in multi-threading likely

means big wins elsewhere too.

In a video encode using HandBrake, for

example, AMD said it has a 40 percent

advantage over the Core i7-1065G7, with

Adobe Premiere CC giving the Ryzen 7

4800U the advantage by 49 percent.

With Ice Lake, Intel greatly improved the

graphics performance of its mobile chips but

AMD claims that won’t help it here, as the

Ryzen 7 4800U’s integrated Radeon cores will

outperform the top-end Core i7-1065G7 by

28 percent using 3DMark Time Spy as a

benchmark. The company also highlighted

games such as Rocket League and Fortnite

giving the Ryzen 7 the advantage too.

FASTER THAN COMET

LAKE U TOO? YUP.

But Ice Lake isn’t the end all and be all. Intel

currently has two architectures available

under the 10th-gen Core banner, with the

second being its 6-core Comet Lake U Core

i7-10710U chip, built using the long-

established 14nm process technology. AMD

said single-threaded performance is closer

between the two, but the two-core

advantage of the Ryzen 7 4800U still puts it

ahead by about 30 to 40 percent in multi-

threaded tasks.