52 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020REVIEWS
IMAGE: LENOVOL
ike a prize fight weigh-in, the AMD
Ryzen 7 4800U in Lenovo’s IdeaPad
Slim 7 just flexed like no other
ultrabook CPU we’ve ever seen.
It’s almost as though the Ryzen 7 4800U
snatched the mic from the podium and
started hurling insults at Intel’s upcoming
Tiger Lake CPU (go.pcworld.com/prom). If
there was a folding chair, we’re sure it
would’ve been thrown at Intel’s entourage
while the flash bulbs popped.
While we’re still in the process of finishing
our testing, the early results we’re seeing are
gobsmackingly impressive. How impressive?
When we started hunting in our spreadsheet
for how other laptops performed against the
IdeaPad Slim 7’s results, we kept scrolling,
and scrolling, and scrolling to find
something comparable. At that point, any
hardware reviewer worth his or her salt
questions whether they’re “doing it
wrong.” Did I run the wrong test?
Am I in the wrong row? Do I need
more coffee?No. Not at all. The Ryzen 7 4800U in the
IdeaPad Slim 7 is just that stupidly fast.
Peep the scores from Maxon’s older
Cinebench R15 benchmark, which uses all
cores to measure a CPU’s performance at
rendering a 3D image. We’re not kidding
either. We initially thought we ran the wrong
test or simply recorded it wrong, but the
IdeaPad Slim 7 and the Ryzen 7 4800U is just
that fast in this short, all-core
performance test.Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7
performance preview: The Ryzen
laptop we’ve been waiting for
AMD’s Ryzen 7 4800U is insanely fast. BY GORDON MAH UNG