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I should also note that a USB 3.2-based USB-C port, cannot simply be called “USB4,” either. To be labeled as USB4, it must support the newest USB4 communication system as well. Thunderbolt certified or Thunderbolt compatible? The R7 6800U is manufactured on the 6 nm TSMC process for higher-than-average, as of mid 2023, energy efficiency. This Ryzen 7 series chip has a default TDP, also known as the long-term power limit, of 15 W to 28 W, the expectation being that laptop makers will go for a higher value in exchange for higher performance. Either way, a proper cooling solution is a must. The rest should be much closer in performance to the 6800U. The HP Pavilion Aero is the one to look at to gauge the generational jump, as it’s running AMD’s 5000 Series equivalent (the 5800U) in a 13-inch laptop. The Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 7 Carbon uses the same CPU, but in a slightly larger 14-inch chassis—the bigger form factor may provide higher performance potential thanks to better cooling. While a USB4 connector can look just like any other USB-C / Thunderbolt connector, it’s the electrical configuration that determines whether it meets the USB4 spec.
And that’s one more reason why this AMD configuration should be on your list: runtimes on battery. There’s a 67 Wh battery on the ZenBook S 13, which is impressive for a laptop of this size and weight, and our early tests show 10-12 hours of video streaming on a charge and 5-8 hours of daily multitasking. For After Effects we also see the 6800H doing well compared to previous generation laptops, though the much faster Intel configurations that we've tested take the crown overall, as you would expect. This also applies to other workloads like Agisoft Metashape which are very heavy on the GPU and end up less influenced by CPU performance. Power ScalingWith all these in mind, here are the lists of the announced or rumored 2023 Ryzen 7 notebooks, as well as the previous generation options. These tables down below are a continuous work in progress and we’re constantly updating them with new entries as they are launched, so let us know in the comments below if you spot any mistake or any product that should be included here and is not. 2023 Ryzen 7 7745HX and Ryzen 7 7840HS/7735HS options
The first laptops powered by AMD Ryzen 6000 Series processors are expected to be available by leading OEM partners, such as Asus, Dell, and HP, beginning in February 2022. Throughout the year, AMD expects broad availability of more than 200 consumer and commercial notebooks based on the 2022 Ryzen portfolio. AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series Processors Ryzen H processors are normally found in full-sized laptops, while Ryzen HS CPUs are only available in a handful of exclusive compact designs;The new AMD Ryzen 7 6800Uleaves a very good impression so far. The single-core performance is not as good as on the new Alder Lake chips, but the multi-core performance is comparable and the new Ryzen CPU is way more efficient. AMD also managed to improve the integrated GPU, but we will take a closer look at the new RDNA2 GPU in a separate article. A full review should be available in the next couple of weeks, and I’ll update here once that’s published. Based on our evaluation of using AMD's Ryzen 7 6800U CPU for gaming, you can expect good game performance. You can also see that these two new chips are built on AMD’s Zen 3 Plus architecture as opposed to the Zen 3 architecture of the 5000 series. The differences between Zen 3 and Zen 3 Plus aren't substantial, so we won’t retread them (you can read about the differences in the Ryzen 6000 launch explainer), but they are worth noting. The architecture change also means that the 6000 U series comes with improved RDNA 2 graphics as opposed to the previous Radeon Vega solution. If you want something with a wider variety of ports while still being sleek and slim, the Lenovo Yoga 9i, a 14-inch Intel-based 2-in-1, may be up your alley. But in our testing, it was slightly behind in performance and more expensive when similarly configured. It did, however, have a slightly higher quality OLED display.
For decompression though, there's nothing separating AMD and Intel products. Ryzen has always been particularly good in this benchmark and it's that aspect to the chip that allows the 6800H to perform well despite usually coming in below the 12700H in other benchmarks. With SmartShift Max, it’s now also aggressive about shifting power to the CPU, too. AMD officials said they’ve found that a surprising number of games that are less graphically intensive can benefit from pushing the CPU harder. I have hardware from all these generations. E.g. a Kaveri A10-7850K with 512 SMs that required optimal DDR3-2400 DIMMs to benefit and did only marginally better than the 384 SM variant because it was starved for bandwidth. We created this performance assessment based on the following characteristics of the CPU and their relevance to the latest graphics-intense games: I can tell you that this is a lower-power implementation of the AMD hardware, as expected from an ultraportable design. I wouldn’t expect it to run at more than 25W sustained in demanding loads. For comparison, the 2022 Intel-based ZenBook 14 runs at 30W sustained on the Performance mode, while the 2021 AMD-based ZenBook 13 ran at sub 20W sustained.JarredWaltonGPU said:Andrew was a bit under the gun to get the review up, but we've added some graphics tests after the fact. Unfortunately, we don't have comparable performance data from other laptops we've reviewed, as that hasn't been something deemed "important" on non-gaming laptops. We're planning to test the graphics performance of some of the other budget "non-gaming" laptops going forward, to build out our suite of results. Right now, it looks like the Radeon 680M is about 80% faster than Intel's Iris Xe 96 EU graphics solution, which is used in both Alder Lake and the older Tiger Lake. It's also a big step down from the sort of performance you'd get from even a GTX 1650 laptop solution.It is not as fast as a GTX 1650, that is to be expected. After all, this is supposed to be an APU that sustains a 15 to 28W TDP. It is really to see how much of a difference people can expect in 3D applications by moving from the aged Vega to RDNA2. The mobile GTX 1650 will require something like a H series processor to catch up due to higher power limit and also better cooling solution deployed. On the other, there are the Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T and Ryzen 5 7530U 6C/12T processors, part of the Barcelo-R platform, built on Zen3 Cores and Vega graphics. These are rebadged versions of the 2022 Ryzen 7 5825U/ Ryzen 5 5635U processors. For my testing, I installed the beta BIOS on the Asus ZenBook 13 S OLED and gathered up as many USB-C based devices as I had. For USB 3.2 and lower, I unsurprisingly had no issues since USB4 is compatible with USB 3.2 and USB 2.0. I was more interested in higher-performance, so the first fast device was a SanDisk G-Drive Pro Thunderbolt 3 drive that only works if you have a Thunderbolt port. The ZenBook gave an audible signal a device was inserted into the port but nothing else. No other Thunderbolt device worked either. We also found it quite interesting that over the last two generations, multi-thread performance - the key factor for high performance notebooks - hasn't improved that much moving from the Ryzen 7 4800H to the 6800H: a 15 percent gain is typical. Instead each generation has focused on a specific area of performance to improve. Last year it was single-thread and cache with the shift to Zen 3, which made a meaningful difference to gaming laptops and some productivity workloads.
We also have the Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 and its Intel Core i7-1260P. The P series is an Alder Lake addition for laptops of this type, even though there will still be 12th Generation U series chips, too. For 12th Generation processors, U series will max out at 15 watts, while the P series CPUs are configured at 28 watts, like the Ryzen 6000 U series. This has to do with the way Intel has rearranged its hierarchy, naming structure, and architecture for the 12th Generation. Performance these days has become much more complex than simple core and thread counts; you can read more about the Intel P and E cores that influenced this new naming convention, as well as other efficiencies, in our explainer.Based on testing by AMD as of 12/14/2021. The integrated graphics performance of Ryzen™ 6000 Series processors can get up to 45 FPS average in the majority of 11 tested PC game titles at 1080p resolution with low settings, a threshold no other integrated graphics processor has reached before, including Intel Iris Xe graphics, and Ryzen™ 5000 Series graphics. RMB-7 Fran- said:Too bad you didn't do gaming, but it reads like a very decent competitor in the segment.
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