PC World - USA (2021-03)

MARCH 2021 PCWorld 39

and AMD’s Ryzen 5000 (Asus ROG Flow X13).
None of the laptops shown here is slow, but
the snappiest of them will likely be based on
those three families.
We next ran Chaosgroup’s V-Ray Next
renderer on the laptops. The same caveats
from above apply—that the M1 is handcuffed
when dealing with non-native code. But as
we saw from Cinebench R23, that won’t help
it against the Ryzen chips.
Few people actually do 3D rendering—
even if their laptop is capable of it—so looking
for a more useful metric that far more people
use, we turned to Puget System’s Pugetbench
for Adobe Premiere to measure the
performance of the Windows laptops, and

compared that to the results Puget System

itself derived for the MacBook Pro M1.

Adobe Premiere taps both the CPU and

GPU depending on how you use it.

Pugetbench uses both to determine its overall

score. Laptops with big, fat GPUs obviously

do better here, but the CPU matters too. With

its GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q, the Ryzen

5000 has the lead, but only when set to its

higher-performance Turbo setting.

All of the laptops with integrated

graphics, including the 10th-gen Core

i7-1185G7 (MSI Prestige 14), Apple M 1

(MacBook Pro), and Ryzen 7 4800U (Lenovo

IdeaPad Slim 7), come out on the bottom. But

the M1 actually does relatively well especially

Upgrading to Cinebench R23, the MacBook Pro
with M1 is outpaced by the 10th-gen Core i7 in the
hulking Gigabyte Aorus 17, as well as all the AMD
Ryzen 4000 and Ryzen 5000 systems.

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

Asus Zephyrus G148-core Ryzen 9 4900HS (Default AC)

Asus ROG Flow X138-core Ryzen 9 5980HS (Turbo AC)

Asus ROG Flow X138-core Ryzen 9 5980HS (Default AC)

Lenovo Slim 78-core Ryzen 7 4800U (Performance AC)

Apple MacBook Pro 138-core M1 (Default AC)

MSI Prestige 144-core Core i7-1185G7 (Performance AC)

MSI Prestige 146-core Core i7-10710U (Default AC)

Acer Predator Triton 5006-core Core i7-10750H (CoolBoost AC)

Gigabyte Aero 178-core Core i7-10870H (Boost AC)

12,3 01

9,954

9,612

11,182

5,991

7, 7 7 8

7, 4 2 6

9,260

Cinebench R23 nT

Multithreaded performance

4,010

When we run Cinebench R23 in single-threaded

mode, Apple’s M1 chip finally competes fully with

AMD and Intel rivals.

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

Asus Zephyrus G148-core Ryzen 9 4900HS (Default AC)

Asus ROG Flow X138-core Ryzen 9 5980HS (Turbo AC)

Asus ROG Flow X138-core Ryzen 9 5980HS (Default AC)

Lenovo Slim 78-core Ryzen 7 4800U (Performance AC)

Apple MacBook Pro 138-core M1 (Default AC)

MSI Prestige 144-core Core i7-1185G7 (Performance AC)

MSI Prestige 146-core Core i7-10710U (Default AC)

Acer Predator Triton 5006-core Core i7-10750H (CoolBoost AC)

Gigabyte Aero 178-core Core i7-10870H (Boost AC)

1,545

1,251

1,24 4

1,460

1, 50 6

1, 513

1,205

1,0 92

1,20 8

Cinebench R23 1T

Single-threaded performance