But with Ryzen 5000, AMD is back to nullify Intel’s key advantage.
However, not every area to Ryzen Mobile 5000 has been updated.
The Ryzen 7 5800U we’re looking at today does, it’s their new Cezanne die.
This is all built on TSMC’s 7nm manufacturing node with a default TDP of 15W.
We also get double the L3 cache as expected.
And that’s without even talking about performance yet.
Unfortunately it does lack Thunderbolt which is a common feature omission on AMD laptops.
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Benchmarks
In Cinebench R20 we get our first look at the Ryzen 7 5800U’s multi-threaded performance.
However at the higher 25W configuration, the 5800U ends up about 5% ahead of the older design.
This small performance uplift allows the 5800U to extend its lead on Intel.
When compared to Tiger Lake there’s a few interesting things at play.
This gives AMD a small performance advantage in the lower power class of around 5%.
A few people have been asking for Cinebench R23 numbers in our previous reviews so here you are.
And we find similar things when looking at the single-thread results as well.
Handbrake is a really interesting benchmark for Ryzen 5000.
At 15W, we actually see a performance regression for the Ryzen 7 5800U compared to the 4800U.
In Blender, again nothing overly different from what we just showed in Handbrake.
MATLAB’s built-in benchmark is a good mix of multi-threaded, single-threaded and cache heavy tests.
The 5800U sees a performance lead of 72% at 15W and over 40% at 25W.
Tiger Lake processors are slower here due to their lack of CPU cores.
Like other workloads, the 5800U is 20% faster than the 4800U here.
That’s not really the case any more.
I guess the takeaway here is in general AMD has been able to equalize performance in this software.
The 1165G7 benefits from its faster GPU, but the 5800U’s faster CPU nullifies that advantage.
In fact at 15W the 5800U is up to 15% faster as a result.
It’s a pretty similar outcome in Adobe Premiere using Puget System’s export test.
The 1165G7 is slightly faster than the 5800U at 28W, but a bit slower at 15W.
So again it’s going to be a situation where the power capabilities of the laptop matter.
Gaming Performance
Now it’s time for some integrated graphics game benchmarks.
Here’s Grand Theft Auto V looking at 15W CPUs.
The Ryzen 7 5800U delivers identical iGPU performance to the Ryzen 7 4800U.
At 25W in the same title, again there is no performance difference.
Here the Ryzen processor matches Tiger Lake.
The 5800U is 13% faster than the 1165G7 in this test.
Again, the 5800U delivers the same performance as the 4800U.
Performance Breakdown
Before jumping into the conclusion, here are some head to head comparisons.
In the higher power class, the Ryzen 7 5800U is almost always faster.
Multi-thread performance transitions from about even, to about 5% faster on average.
Meanwhile, we see the same single-thread performance gains as in the 15W class, which are very solid.
The 5800U is significantly faster at multi-threaded CPU workloads, typically in the 70%+ range.
Again similar story with the 5800U versus 1165G7.
However at 15W, the 5800U is generally faster than the Core i7-1165G7 at all workloads.
What hasn’t changed in this comparison is multi-thread CPU performance.
AMD continues to hold a remarkably strong lead here, destroying Tiger Lake especially at low power classes.
8 cores up against 4 will do that.
But what AMD’s been able to achieve this generation is the single-thread performance to match Intel.
I now feel the balance of CPU performance lies strongly with AMD.
Integrated graphics performance, on the other hand, is a mixed bag.
And it’s platform features where AMD has generally struggled in.
Ryzen is used in fewer premium designs, for example.
Supply has been an issue before and continues to be constrained today.
A design you like just simply may not come with an AMD equivalent.
