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and eight threads powering through these tasks relative
to the others. Not all of these benchmarks show big
leads over the next-best laptop, but most are pretty
comfortable, and some of the competitors are way
behind in some results. The sustained Handbrake test
and somewhat sustained Cinebench test especially show
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That doesn’t make this a specialized media workstation,
granted, but you shouldn’t expect as much in this price
range anyway. Those who need such a laptop for work
or school will need to spend more, but for this category,
you can perform some editing and encoding without
painful wait times.
GRAPHICS TESTS
3DMark measures relative graphics muscle by
rendering sequences of highly detailed, gaming-style 3D
graphics that emphasize particles and lighting. We run
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Both are DirectX 11 benchmarks. Sky Diver is more
suited to midrange PCs, while Fire Strike is more
demanding and made for high-end PCs to strut their
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The Ryzen 7
chip flexes its
muscles here,
its 8 cores and
8 threads
powering
through these
tasks relative
to the others.