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Ruilong APU vs. 8th Generation Core I/A/N Combination Thin and Light Performance CPU and the performance positioning of thin and light notebooks with AMD NVIDIA's latest lightweight GPU to provide readers with an overview before the Year of the Dog arrives.

Ruilong APU breaks the mobile market pattern and brings more choices to consumers

Recent feedback from netizens shows that the price range of 5,000 to 7,000 yuan Thin and light notebooks have become the product type that non-gaming notebook users are most concerned about. Especially notebooks with sizes ranging from 13 to 15.6 inches are very popular. The 8th generation Core low-voltage version was the first to launch multi-core in the notebook field, attracting widespread attention. The Ryzen APU that followed closely behind also attracted the attention of many enthusiasts with its heterogeneous fusion concept and high cost performance. Currently, there are roughly three configuration options for this type of thin and light notebooks - Intel 8th generation Core equipped with NVIDIA MX150 independent graphics card, Intel 8th Generation Core equipped with AMD Radeon 500 series independent graphics card, and the newly released Ryzen mobile APU heterogeneous combination . We also noticed that many students and working people are very concerned about the productivity performance of thin and light laptops.

The battle between A and I is the protagonist, NVIDIA plays a key role

Therefore, the horizontal review of this article will mainly focus on the performance of seven common thin and light notebooks. Aimed at solving the following hot issues.

1: What is the performance difference between Ryzen APU and single- and dual-channel memory? What is the impact of the size difference between 13-inch and 15-inch platforms.

2: Can the gaming performance of Ryzen APU compete with the typical combination of 8th generation Core and MX150, and whether it can meet the expectations of most users.

Three: In terms of theoretical calculations, productivity tools, etc., what are the similarities and differences in the performance of Ryzen and 8th generation Core, and how to position their strength levels.

Four: The ultimate question is which configuration combination plan will be more viable in the next six months.

8th Generation Core Low Voltage Version Specification Information

Ryzen Mobile Processor Platform Information

CAD Creo and other productivity needs are actually quite widespread on the forum

The author found most of the mainstream thin and light notebooks that can be obtained under objective conditions on the eve of the Spring Festival, including Lenovo, ThinkPad , Acer, Asus, HP and other brands, covering the common range and size of 5,000 to 8,000 yuan. I hope that through comparative analysis, everyone can have a better understanding of the question "which one is better?"

2 Platform Configuration Parameters and Testing Methods

Platform Configuration Parameters and Testing Methods

The seven thin and light notebooks we selected are Acer Swift 3 15-inch Ryzen Edition, Acer Swift 5 14-inch, Lenovo ideapad 720S R7 2700U, ideapad 720S R5 2500U, Lenovo Xiaoxinchao 7000 13, ThinkPad R480 I7 8550U, HP ENVY 13 independent graphics version, Asus U3100UN.

Share Swift 3 Ryzen APU platform Acer S

Two of Lenovo’s ideapad series and Acer Swift 3 use AMD Ryzen APU processors, and the rest are Intel 8 Generation Core models. The ThinkPad R480 is equipped with a Radeon 540 mobile graphics card, which is comparable to the NVIDIA MX 150 independent graphics card of the ENVY 13, Asus U3100UN, and Lenovo Chao 7000. Acer Swift 5 14-inch uses Intel Core Graphics. The platform information, especially the storage configuration, of the eight thin and light notebooks is listed in the table below. Since most thin and light platforms have onboard memory, it is not feasible to enforce consistency of memory channels and frequencies. We can only reduce the limitations of control variables by expanding the test sample capacity.

Testing the configuration parameters of eight notebooks

The relevant information of the 8th generation Core and Ryzen APU has been introduced in the first two days of testing. You can pass "Shaking up the core thin and light notebook landscape, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U APU first test" to learn more. The Radeon 540 2GB independent graphics card GPU core equipped on ThinkPad R480 is code-named Lexa. It belongs to the GCN family and has 512 stream processor units and 64bit GDDR5 memory. The bandwidth reaches 48GB/S. The theoretical performance is stronger than Vega with 640 stream processors. 10 heterogeneous cores, which is also slightly stronger than NVIDIA’s MX150 independent graphics.

Comparison of Radeon 540 independent graphics card and Vega 10 parameters (Vega10 recognition error)

This test was conducted under Windows 10 version 1709 To avoid the performance impact of Intel's Specter and Meltdown patches. AMD APU uses the 17.7 random built-in driver, AMD Radeon 540 uses the 18.1.1 Adrenaline driver, and NVIDIA uses the latest driver 390.77. The test will eventually include the following six parts:

1: Comparison of running scores and game performance between Vega 10 and Vega 8 powerful fusion GPUs and MX150 and Radeon 540.

2: Theoretical tests including Wprime multi-threaded calculation, PassMark theoretical test, 3DMark Time Spy Extreme\Time Spy physics and other projects.

Three: SPECwpc productivity suite testing includes four links: Catia, Creo engineering modeling link, LuxRender rendering link and PYTHON programming language.

Four: The rendering test includes two professional test projects: CoronaBenchmak and Cinebench R15.

Five: Video transcoding includes three steps: X264 HD Benchmark, X265 HWBOT and Adobe MediaEncoder transcoding.

Six: Supplement Adobe Photoshop CC2018 for mainstream application testing of portrait dermabrasion and landscape stack.

33DMark GPU Performance Comparison

3DMark GPU Performance Comparison

Many people have high expectations for Ryzen mobile processors, due to Vega low-frequency version and Ryzen mobile version The energy consumption ratio is well within the frequency and power consumption inflection points, and it can give full play to its process and architectural advantages. The power consumption limitations of the R5 2500U and R7 2700U previously installed on the ideapad 720S were very severe, causing their Vega 8\10 GPU performance to be almost completely unavailable, not even much better than Intel's ordinary core graphics (the R7 running score is lower than the R5).

Now we have found two MX150 independent graphics notebooks (Asus failed to test the GPU due to time reasons, and its performance basically overlaps with HP ENVY 13), AMD's own Radeon 540 with the same positioning, and compare and verify it. What is the strength of the single- and dual-channel Vega heterogeneous GPU.

3DMark Firestrike EX results

##3DMark Time Spy results

You can see it from the 3DMark graphics results It turns out that the current theoretical results of the dual-channel R7 2700U thin and light notebook are still some distance away from the AMD conference. The 13.3-inch single-channel R7 2700U is not as good as the R5 2500U of the same mold due to power consumption limitations, and is very different from the MX150.

Acer's Swift 3 platform is not designed as a flagship product. I believe that with a more powerful mold, the Vega 10 equipped with R7 2700U is expected to be close to the MX150 8W independent graphics version (ENVY 13 and ASUS U3100UN equipped are all low-power versions of MX150).

4 Practical test of four game masterpieces

Practical test of four game masterpieces

Many people have a natural distrust of running scores, and the running scores are not very good. It easily reflects some practical problems such as bandwidth and power consumption bottlenecks, and has its limitations. Although the current thin and light laptops are not designed as gaming laptops, gaming capabilities are an important weapon for them to expand to the mainstream user population. Below we will choose four game masterpieces to compare the gaming capabilities of Vega 10, Vega 8, MX150 8W and Radeon 540. .

Overwatch

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt

Battlefield 1

The four games we selected are Overwatch Vanguard, Battlefield 1, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Resident Evil 7. Among them, "Overwatch" is set to 1080P medium quality for 100% rendering (the game defaults to medium, and some options are low), and the other games are all 1080P minimum quality.

Overwatch test results

Resident Evil test results

The Witcher 3 test results

The performances of the four games are very similar - Radeon 540 has superior strength, and the results of the two brands of MX150 are relatively close. At the same time, the dual-channel R7 2700U can be close to the MX150 8W version, and the difference is not very obvious. Of course, the Ryzen APU type with particularly strict single-channel and power consumption restrictions does not have much gaming value.

5Wprime PassMark Test

Wprime PassMark Test

The frequency and co-frequency performance of AMD Ryzen 7 2700U are actually similar to those of Intel i7 8550U. The real advantages and disadvantages are still It must be verified one by one based on reality. Wprime and PassMark are both classic theoretical testing tools. PassMark can verify a lot of underlying information, and coupled with the physical testing of 3DMark, it is enough to reflect the theoretical performance of mainstream thin and light notebooks.

ASUS Wprime Test

Acer PassMark Theory Test

WPrime 2.10 Test Results

3DMark Time SPY EX physical test

PassMark test results

In the Wprime part, the dual-channel Ryzen R7 performed well, and the 8th generation Core achieved the same power consumption Restriction related, good and bad. The performance of the single-channel Ryzen R7 is not as good as the Ryzen R5.

In the PassMark section, all single-channel platform results have been greatly negatively affected. The overall performance of Intel's 8th generation Core is excellent, and the most powerful dual-channel R7 2700U can come close to them.

3DMark Time SPY Extreme is a recently released demo. Its physical test is said to be greatly optimized for the new version of AVX. The overall performance of Ryzen in this link is relatively sluggish.

6SPECwpc Productivity Suite Test

SPECwpc Productivity Suite Test

The SPEC Standard Performance Evaluation Organization is a global non-profit organization that has developed a comprehensive range of computer performance evaluation standards. The most famous one, SPEC CPU 2006, has always been the most authoritative testing tool for directly comparing underlying performance between cross-architecture CPUs.

When the Ryzen APU ideapad 720S was first launched, the author saw in Tieba that many netizens who wanted to use productivity tools such as Auto CAD were particularly concerned about AMD, so the SPECwpc test was added to this test. SPEC has launched many productivity-related software products, and SPECwpc is one of the more comprehensive ones. This test used Catia (also the design engine of the French Big Lock Company) and four sub-projects of Creo, LuxRender and PYTHON, which mainly represent the performance of modeling and drawing software such as Solidworks\AUTOCAD, various mechanical design rendering and conversion software.

SPECwpc test process

SPECwpc test process

##SPECwpc test process

SPEC wpc 2.1 test results

SPEC wpc 2.1 test results

Judging from the four groups of results, Catia Because Creo is related to GPU, AMD game cards with sufficient power consumption - including Vega 10 of Ryzen R7 2700U - often have performance close to professional cards, so they appear to be stronger in notebook comparisons. However, if the power consumption constraints are very severe, the AMD platform cannot always maintain this advantage.

In LuxRender and PYTHON, ASUS performs very well, and the other notebooks are not very differentiated. It can be considered that they all perform similarly in lightweight similar tasks.

7Corona Cinema 2D Rendering Test

Corona Cinema 2D Rendering Test

In terms of professional graphics rendering, we use the famous Cinebench R15 and Corona Benchmark for comparative testing. CINEBENCH is an industry-recognized benchmark software and can be seen in most system performance tests of mainstream media at home and abroad. It uses the Cinema 4D special effects software engine developed by the company for the film and television industry and can test the performance of the CPU and graphics card.

Cinebench R15 R7 2700U operation

The Corona Render renderer is a rising star in the industry. It is actually very good in terms of rendering quality and speed and can be directly compared to it. It's Vray. It can be used for rendering in software such as 3Dsmax and C4D. It is highly representative and efficient. Importantly, this software currently provides version 1.3 of independent Benchmark, which is only about 200MB in size. For those enthusiasts who are obsessed with judging the overall performance of the CPU (not just multi-core optimization or frequency), it can also be regarded as a good carrier of the principle of "just score if you don't accept it".

CoronaBenchmak R7 2700U operation

CoronaBenchmark

Cinebench R15 Rendering Test

2D graphics rendering is one of the areas where AMD Ryzen architecture can fully demonstrate its advantages. The dual-channel R7 2700U is equivalent to a group of 8th generation i7s in CoronaBenchmark because their frequencies are also comparable. near. In Cinebench R15, AMD series Ryzen APU performed relatively strongly.

8X264 X265 Transcoding Theory and Practice Verification

X264 ：

1：X264 part

Run independent X264 HD Benchmark, get the frame rate, and verify each other.

R7 2700U HWBOT X256 test

2: X265/HEVC part

1: Run Hwbot 265 Benchmark and get the results for comparison .

2: Use Adobe MediaEncoder CC 2018 to convert an Overwatch video to HEVC 1080P mode. The source video resolution is 2560X1440 and the bit rate is about 7MBPS.

Media Encoder test settings (same test session from desktop)

Adobe Meida Encoder CC 2018 transcoding test

X264 X265 Transcoding Test

In the latest version of the It is split into two 128-bit instructions for execution, so there is a difference in efficiency. However, even if commonly used software represented by Adobe supports X265, it will not fully support it. At present, among commonly used transcoding software, regardless of X264 or X265, Ryzen APU, which is supported by sufficient power consumption and memory bandwidth, is quite friendly to mainstream users and is basically the same as its competitors. On the other hand, whether it is 8th generation Core or Ryzen, there will be a significant loss in performance when available power consumption is significantly limited.

9Adobe Photoshop CC image processing

Adobe Photoshop CC image processing

For the landscape part, we use Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 to open 14 Nikon D850 14bit 46 million pixel lossless compressed Raw files , perform automatic alignment and average stacking operations after loading to obtain an image with dark noise eliminated and the water surface smooth, and the recording time is compared.

Ryzen 7 2700U running Photoshop

Photoshop needs tolerance to brighten the dark parts to support the stack, which is beneficial to noise reduction

Subsequently, we also Use Photoshop CC to open a Fujifilm GFX 50S medium-format mirrorless camera 50-megapixel lossless compressed Raw format portrait picture, use the Delicious Retouch plug-in to perform a semi-automatic skin resurfacing action, and record the cumulative running time of the plug-in for comparison.

Comparison between Fuji medium format straight-out and smoothing

Ryzen 7 2700U running Photoshop

Dermabrasion test

Stack test

In the stack test, the R7 2700U and R5 2500U tables appear relatively weak , this is because the power consumption limit of the Lenovo platform is too strict, and the SATA 3 solid-state drive used by the Acer platform is not of high quality, which is a drag. When conditions are suitable, we will compare in order to find a fair way to control variables.

Delicious Retouch This plug-in can represent the usage habits of mainstream Photoshop users. It takes into account multi-thread optimization and frequency optimization, giving the dual-channel R7 2700U with sufficient power consumption no less performance than the 8th generation Core. It is worth noting that, similar to many previous projects, under the same power consumption restrictions, the results of some brands of R7 2700U are often not as good as the R5 2500U of the same mold.

10 Data weighted summary conclusion and outlook

Data weighted summary conclusion and outlook

We made a chart of the weighted summary percentage of the four games and the weighted percentage of the CPU theoretical project Presented to you. Among them, the GPU of the game part will definitely be affected by the CPU, and the GPU will also have a certain degree of participation in the CPU part of individual projects (the physical results of some 3DMark projects such as Firestrike are not shown in the previous bar chart and are also included in the total weight).

Summary performance comparison of four games

CPU project performance summary

Combine these two groups With data, we can try to answer the questions raised at the beginning:

First: Ryzen APU does eat a lot of memory, but in our tests, memory bandwidth is not the decisive factor, power consumption is . Calculated based on a desktop graphics card, if the memory bandwidth is lost by half, the graphics test will probably lose about 30% of the performance accordingly. Our comparison shows that the 13-inch and 15-inch Ryzen 7 2700U of different brands are very different in games. This can only be caused by the power consumption wall set up by the manufacturer. There is currently no evidence that only 15 inches can bring sufficient power consumption and temperature redundancy to Ryzen. Among the 13-inch platforms, the Ryzen APU scores are lower, and the Intel 8th generation Core of the same brand also scores low. We will have reason to look forward to the emergence of more 13- and 14-inch high-performance thin and light notebooks.

The biggest difference between the two brands of Ryzen processors comes from the VDDN and Package power consumption control strategies

Second: In terms of game performance, power consumption restrictions are relatively strict The performance of the MX150 platform is almost the same as that of the nearly full-blooded Ryzen 2700U platform. If everything is in optimal conditions, the theoretical graphics test of Ryzen 7 2700U may be close to the 8W MX150, but the game will still be 10% to 20% weaker. This range is acceptable for most lightweight games, but it is still very considerable for some games that hover on the edge of playable and unplayable.

Ryzen APU has a bright future in notebook platforms

Third: Ryzen APU is relatively weak in applications involving the AVX 256 instruction set. But the difference is not huge. In most traditional productivity projects, the nearly full-blooded dual-channel version of the Ryzen APU R7 2700U can compete with the Intel i7 8550U. In some applications that emphasize single-threading, Ryzen may suffer a bit, but it is not serious.

Fourth: The comprehensive life cycle of each generation of thin and light notebooks is about 16 months. In the next year and a half from now, Ryzen APU will be worth buying. It can also be seen from the price list we displayed earlier that the Ryzen APU notebook platform is relatively cost-effective. Heterogeneous CPUs can also save PCB area and save internal volume to bring larger-capacity batteries, which has advantages under many conditions.

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