Cinebench is often a good predictor of our Handbrake video-editing trial,
another tough, threaded workout that’s highly CPU-dependent and scales well
with cores and threads. In it, we put a stopwatch on test systems as they
transcode a standard 12-minute clip of 4K video (the open-source Blender
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results are better.
We also run a custom Adobe Photoshop image-editing benchmark. Using an
early 2018 release of the Creative Cloud version of Photoshop, we apply a series
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operation and add up the total. As with Handbrake, lower times are better here.
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Handbrake and scoring several hundred points higher in Cinebench compared
to the others. I wouldn’t recommend this laptop as a specialist workstation for
media professionals (most gaming laptops, especially at this price, aren’t), but
in a pinch, it can do the job better than the others.