Can Ryzen 6000 Beat Intel Alder Lake?
All of this has been fabricated on TSMC’s N6 node.
Plus, many other feature additions and battery life enhancements.
Also read:What’s new with the Zen 3+ architecture?
We’ll be checking that out in a separate review.
We’ve been using this beast for a little while now and it’s genuinely an impressive system.
But this isn’t a laptop review, so let’s head into the benchmarking.
Single thread results are a mixed bag.
InBlenderwe see another result where the new 6900HS is matching the 5900HX.
This sees the 6900HS outperform the 5900HX which is in contrast to most other long-term multithreaded workloads.
Matlabis another benchmark that benefits from improved memory bandwidth that we’re getting this generation.
AMD needs to deliver an IPC gain to retake the lead in this test.
But again this isn’t enough to exit the gap to Alder Lake in lightly-threaded tasks.
Decent from a performance per watt standpoint, but hardly an exciting result.
In Adobe Photoshop it’s once again a mixed bag for Ryzen 6000.
The Ryzen 9 6900HS plus RX 6800S configuration is very disappointing in Adobe Premiere 2022.
The main reason for this isn’t export performance.
The main issue is in live playback performance.
AMD models have issues with this test, and seem held back by weak media engine support.
AMD needs to put in some extra work here to get performance up to a satisfactory level in Premiere.
And lastly we have our Agisoft Metashape photogrammetry benchmark.
Obviously larger systems with bigger GPUs are performing better here.
There are some other interesting things to note here.
AMD is extremely competitive in the lower power range for multi-thread workloads.
Gaming Benchmarks
To round out this review we’re going to show some integrated GPU benchmarks.
But we guess at the very least this will be a preview for how U-series parts may shape up.
However not every game is faster using a Ryzen iGPU.
CS:GO was one case where the 12700H was superior to the tune of 18 percent.
This title is very playable on an integrated GPU and that’s without resorting to resolution scaling.
This is native 1080p performance and it’s not even with the lowest quality configs.
The bad news is that the Ryzen 9 6900HS’s CPU performance isn’t competitive elsewhere.
Other stuff AMD is bringing to the table includes improvements to the Ryzen APU platform.
DDR5 is a welcome upgrade and it does improve both system and gaming performance.
PCIe 4.0 support was long overdue.
USB4 is a neat addition.
The RDNA2 design with 12 compute units is much faster than the previous Vega design.
