TheCore i5-10300Hfor example, clocks up to 4.5 GHz and packs 8MB of L3 cache within its 45W TDP.
This newer 10th-gen part isn’t too different from the quad-cores that came before it.
Cooling components is a smaller unit that lacks an exhaust vent along the right side.
The GPU is a lower power variant as well when compared to Ryzen 7 models.
Asus also ships this laptop with 8GB of single-channel memory, leaving a free DIMM slot for future upgrades.
However, this cripples out of the box performance considerably.
For both AMD and Intel CPUs that normally means a 45W long-term power limit.
This is impressive considering AMD’s part packs just 6 cores, while Intel are offering 8.
The situation is even more impressive when pitting the 4600H up against the newCore i7-10750Hin a core-for-core battle.
And in Cinebench R20, the Ryzen 5 4600H absolutely obliterates the 9300H.
It’s twice as fast for multi-thread and around 8 percent faster in single-thread.
AMD isn’t messing around with video encoding performance either.
AMD continues to produce massive numbers in anything multi-threaded as was the case in Blender.
Ryzen also performs well for code compilation.
The Ryzen 5 4600H also performs well for Chromium compilation using Google’s recommended tweaks.
AMD is almost able to offset the cache disadvantage with higher CPU core efficiency.
7-Zip is another workload that typically plays nice with AMD CPUs.
Compression is another story, AMD easily beats the Core i5.
but can’t keep up to those Core i7 offerings.
MATLAB R2020a is a widely used tool by engineers.
The weakest result for Ryzen is with Adobe Acrobat PDF exporting.
AMD remains the faster CPU option for AES cryptography.
Adobe Photoshop is not a very GPU heavy tool and is mostly dominated by CPU performance.
The Ryzen 5 4600H performs well, matching the performance of the Core i7-9750H despite featuring a slower GPU.
Next up we have Adobe Premiere.
In Puget’s Export test, again the Ryzen 5 4600H performs well considering it has a slower GPU.
And then for effects like Warp Stabilizer, Ryzen APUs as a whole sit a class above Intel offerings.
For now this is the only laptop we could find using the 4600H.
Performance Breakdown
Let’s blast through some performance comparisons before wrapping this up.
The Ryzen 5 4600H holds its own against the eight-core Core i7-10875H in multi-core tests.
In fact, the Ryzen 5 4600H can be up to 10 percent faster.
This is probably a result of binning and simply using higher quality silicon for the 8-core chips.
Intel may have been a bit blindsided by offering just a quad-core CPU in the Core i5-10300H.
The Ryzen 5 4600H is powerful enough that it throws up interesting questions around laptop configurations.
But in an entry to mid-range system, is a Core i7 or even Ryzen 7 required?
That could end up being a fantastic balance in the budget space between price, CPU and GPU performance.
