Many business users, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, training institutions, small teams and ordinary business users, may prefer some cost-effective commercial books because of complex reasons such as different industries, budgets, and needs, such as HP Battle Series, ThinkPad E Series, Dell Vostro Achievement Series Laptops, etc. However, the same brand and model will usually be available in the core processor version and the Ryzen™ processor version. So is it the Core Edition or the Ryzen Edition? To answer this question, we need to understand: two identical notebook products, just the difference in processors, how much impact will it have on the overall performance of the machine?
In the previous article "Intel or AMD? How to choose a commercial book? Processor is key", we conducted a comparative test of processor benchmark performance through two commercial books of the same brand, model, and configuration (only processors are different). According to the test results, for commercial thin and light books that are not equipped with unique displays, in the case of the same model, configuration, optimization and system tuning, the performance of the processor largely determines the performance of the commercial thin and light books, of which the benchmark test results of the Ryzen Version are fully ahead of the Core Edition.
Of course, we've only talked about the differences between the two platforms at the processor benchmarking level. Today we again use the last test of the two from the same manufacturers, in addition to the different processors, memory, screen, battery, appearance size, SSD specifications, cameras, fan design and other aspects are the same commercial book, from the practical application level to see the performance of the two platforms.
This time, we have selected 10 practical application test items, which cover office applications, web browsing, compression/decompression, audio and video transcoding rendering and other practical application tests, which are very representative of commercial offices. Through the actual measurement of these real applications, we can bring you a reference on the purchase of commercial books.
The two laptops, one with the Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor and the other with the AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U processor.
Power and system settings
Power management policies have a great impact on the performance of notebook platforms, and many OEMs will add their own optimized power management strategies for their own products, such as many manufacturers have their own power management strategies, which can take over the power management plan of Windows.
In order to make this competition more comparable, we will upgrade the operating systems of both machines to the latest Win 11 version, and the power modes included in the Win 11 system are only "best energy efficiency", "balance" and "best performance", instead of the Win 10 system's "balance", "longer battery life", "better performance", "longest battery life" and several other complex options. We set both machines to the "balanced" mode that comes with the Win 11 system (the power plan in the control panel is also set to "balanced" mode). This is more in line with the actual usage habits of users, and can better reflect the impact of the processor platform on the performance of the whole machine.
It should be noted that even if the power supply is plugged in, if the battery of the notebook is not full, it will also affect the actual performance of the notebook, because the power supply of the notebook under high load is insufficient at this time. Many people overlook this, and our testing process is carried out with a full battery (100%) plugged in.
Office application office testing
The most commonly used by business users in their daily work is the office three-piece set (Word, Excel, PPT), in order to make the test more comparable, we use Microsoft 365 to test.
UL Procyon Office Productivity Benchmark and PCMark 10 Application Test.
In office testing, we specifically introduced two different professional testing software, UL Procyon and PCMark 10 Pro. Among them, UL's Procyon is a newly launched professional commercial office test software, which can more comprehensively and leadingly reflect the performance and efficiency of actual office applications, and is a new test standard that can reflect the efficiency of future office applications. UL Procyon's "Office Productivity Benchmark" project calls Word, Excel, PPT, and Outlook on computers, and it focuses on measuring performance aspects that directly affect the user experience, such as automatic calculations in Excel, inserting data, exporting PDFs, etc., which simulates common office tasks for business users throughout the day.
PCMark 10 is also a professional test software that we are familiar with, and its "application test" will call the Word, Excel, PPT and Edge browsers on the computer, compared to UL Procyon, which has more tests for browsing the web. Looking at the two test items together, we can clearly feel the difference between the two machines in the office office scene.
It can be seen that when the screen size, body size, memory, SSD, heat dissipation, power mode, etc. of the two thin and light books are completely the same, only the difference in the processor will also bring no small difference in the office application office level, that is to say, the performance of the processor has a great impact on the office application office performance of the thin and light book. In the UL Procyon Office Productivity Benchmark and PCMark 10 Application Test, the Ryzen™ edition model (equipped with AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U) is fully ahead of the Core Edition model (equipped with the Core i7-1165G7), with a lead of 11.6% and 7.4%, respectively.
If you look at the breakdown, you will find that the Ryzen™ ben scores better in the UL Procyon test, its "Word score", "Excel score" and "PPT score" are ahead of the Core model, for example, the time to export PDFs in the Word test is shorter than that of the Core model, and the time to solve the equation in Excel is also shorter than that of the Core model. That said, the AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U processor's many leading features (such as more thread counts, more advanced 7nm processes, etc.) do have more advantages in real office applications.
Web browsing comprehensive performance test
In addition to office application office, business users are often inseparable from the browser in their work, especially in the cloud office environment, business people perform various tasks such as retrieving data, browsing the web, viewing stock quotes, online meetings, OA office, translating documents, etc. are inseparable from the browser, so the comprehensive performance test of web browsing is also the focus of our attention. Here, we introduce the WebXPRT 3 Web browsing test and the Octane 2.0 JavaScript benchmark to examine the performance of both machines, and the browsers used for the test use Microsoft Edge.
It can be seen that in the web browsing comprehensive performance test, even if the other configurations of the two machines are the same, the difference in processors will still have some impact on the web browsing performance. In both web browsing tests, the Ryzen Edition's thin and light version was ahead of the Core Edition model, with a lead of 9% and 6% respectively.
7- Zip compression/decompression test
Compression and decompression software in most notebooks are inconspicuous tool applications, but the daily office is inseparable from them, no matter what work we are engaged in, we often need to decompress or compress files, materials, for some office business heavy positions (such as secretarial, new media editing, creative design, etc.), decompression of tens ofGB of compression package may be more normal. So let's look at how the two machines perform in terms of compression and decompression through the 7-Zip software.
Compression/decompression is more processor-dependent multithreading, so it can be seen that the Ryzen™ with a higher number of threads has a very clear advantage over Core Ben, with a lead of 64.6%. As we mentioned before, the difference in processor specifications depends on what choices the upstream chip manufacturers in each camp can provide, the current low-voltage processor, Intel can only provide the option of 4 cores, and the downstream OEMs and end users cannot sway, so this part can be said to be the innate advantage of the Ryzen™ ben.
Processor rendering performance test
3D modeling and rendering should be the duty of high-performance notebooks, but in the short video era, many commercial users often need to make some short videos, and there is no shortage of operations such as rendering, transcoding, encoding, etc. in the process, which puts forward high requirements for the performance of the whole machine of thin and light books. Therefore, we selected several rendering, transcoding-related practical applications to test and see how the two machines actually performed.
First of all, HandBrake is a well-known video encoding software, which can be used for video encoding (transcoding), adding subtitles and audio, anti-interlacing, noise removal, etc., and is loved by content creators (self-media), filmmakers, and broadcasters of all kinds. In this test, we transcoded a 252MB 4K corporate trailer to a 1080p video, and the Ryzen Ben only took 38 seconds, while the Core Ben took up to 72 seconds, which shows that the Ryzen Ben has significantly higher efficiency here.
Foobar2000 is also a well-known audio transcoding software, we transcode a 505MB FLAC lossless album audio file into mp3 audio, the final Ryzen took 7 seconds, while the Core Ben took 11 seconds, Ryzen Ben led significantly.
Blender is a free and open source 3D graphics image software that provides a series of animated short film production solutions from modeling, animation, materials, rendering, to audio processing, video editing and so on. In the shortest bmw27 rendering scene, the commercial version equipped with the AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U took only 4 minutes and 29 seconds to complete the task, while the commercial version equipped with the Core i7-1165G7 took 9 minutes and 14 seconds. If you stretch the time a little longer, under the long rendering work, the Ryzen Ben completed the rendering task of the victor scene in 24 minutes and 5 seconds, while the Core Ben timeline came to 45 minutes and 15 seconds. Obviously, the Ryzen™ processor in this test has a crushing advantage.
Finally, let's take a look at the results of the V-RAY processor rendering performance test and the x264 FHD Benchmark test. In these two tests, the commercial version equipped with the AMD Ryzen™ 7 5800U also has a great advantage, about 100% ahead of the commercial version equipped with the Core i7-1165G7.
Again, the two notebooks tested this time are from the same manufacturer, and they are exactly the same in addition to the CPU, so the results of this test should be able to solve the doubts of most business users when buying notebooks. The content of this test is closer to the common scenarios in the actual office use process, for commercial thin and light books that are not equipped with a unique display, in the case of the same model, configuration, optimization and system tuning, the difference in processor can indeed bring differences in the use experience in practical applications. Even if your work is just an office application that business users often use, different processors can make a difference in experience. If you also have to deal with rendering, modeling, transcoding and other office scenarios, then pay more attention to the difference in the number of processor threads, because this impact on performance is also critical.
It is said that shopping malls are battlefields, efficiency is money, I believe that after watching this series of tests, business users, especially small and medium-sized enterprise users, can make more informed decisions when purchasing and purchasing commercial books.