FEBRUARY 2021 PCWorld 19RYZEN 5000 MOBILE:
IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE
For many, though, performance is king.
And AMD certainly made the argument that
the Ryzen 5000 Mobile can certainly
compete with, if not blow away entirely, the
best that Intel has to offer. (You can compare
AMD’s own results with Intel’s own numbers
in the mobile 11th-gen “Tiger Lake”
presentation Intel
released at
CES [go.
pcworld.com/
th35].)
First,
gen-over-gen
scaling. Pay
close attention
to the single-
threaded
scores posted
by the Ryzen
Mobile 5300U,
5500U, and 5700U
scores, as we’ll talk
about those more in
the next section.
AMD also
provided multi-
threaded scores, too.
Here, processors like
the 4800U and
5800U contain the
same number of cores
and threads; the difference is the frequency
gap: the Ryzen 7 4800 offers 1.8GHz base
clock and 4.2GHz turbo speeds, while the
Ryzen 7 5800U provides a 1.9GHz base
clock and 4.4GHz turbo speeds.
Kick it up a notch with the Ryzen 9
5980HS and the gains are still impressive.
AMD also touted the ability of the Ryzen
5000 Mobile to compete against its own