Synthetic and Legacy Results (15W)

The realm of synthetic testing is a tricky one, given that there are plenty of benchmarks in the wild that provide a number, but aren’t actually based on real workloads, or are very limited in what they actually test. The issue here is that this software tries to emulate real-world, but it isn’t immersed in the harnesses or matrix of what a user might actually experience. For that reason, we only tend to use these benchmarks based on reader requests.

Legacy benchmarks are included for similar reasons, but can help to get a historical perspective.

GeekBench ST

GeekBench MT

x264 HD 3.0 Pass 1

x264 HD 3.0 Pass 2

System Results (15W) Gaming Results (15W and 25W)
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  • Rookierookie - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    Other reports have indicated that Ice Lake graphics actually beats Vega, so...
  • psychobriggsy - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    Except you've been able to get Zen APUs for a long time, and this isn't out yet. For all we know, Zen 2 APU will arrive in a similar timeframe. But it is good that it is competitive.
  • Phynaz - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    AMD laptop parts have always been garbage
  • Fulljack - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    they're now in the same ballpark with integrated vega graphics.

    still, looking at oem, they'll probably add mx250 or gtx 1650 max-q.
  • StormyParis - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    They'll be, in 6 months, assuming this demo unit can be produced at scale, priced competitively, and AMD doesn' t improve in the mean time.
    I understand why Anand did this review, and I enjoyed it, but it is really about Intel making vague promises in the hope we don't all buy AMD stuff for our 2-3-4-5 yearly upgrade in the next 6 months. And then we'll do it anyway ;-p
  • Fulljack - Sunday, August 4, 2019 - link

    sadly, oem doesn't push amd based laptop as much as intel based laptop.

    just recently we've got ryzen 3000 (zen+) laptop, despite it's released early this year. it only improve performance over previous generation by ~10%, but it greatly improves battery life though.
  • GNUminex_l_cowsay - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    For once the Civ VI graphics benchmark actually tells us something useful; but would it kill you guys give turn time numbers?
  • Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    Didn't have time, we're we're running to the edge with the game numbers.
  • zealvix - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    Any news/dates for the desktop releases?

    And graphics seem only abit better than the iris plus 655 in my NUC, but a large part of that is from the increased bandwidth as well.
    Any news of a 2 tflop or at least 1.7+ tflop variant of the graphics to match the best from ryzen mobile?
  • psychobriggsy - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link

    That would require Intel to design a SKU with 96EUs at least.

    That doesn't exist, and likely won't on 14/10nm.

    AMD is likely months away from 7nm Zen 2 APU with over 2 TFLOPS, assuming memory bandwidth to feed it (I truly hope they have LPDDR4X support for their mobile APUs).

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