AMD Ryzen 7 6800U Review – with ASUS ZenBook S 13 OLED

1. AMD Ryzen 7 6800U2. Testing Configurations & Methodology3. Performance Results - Technical4. Performance Results - Cinebench & Blender5. Performance Results - Handbrake, 7-Zip, Memory6. Performance Results - 3DMark & PCMark 107. Performance Results - iGPU Gaming 1080p8. Media Consumption Testing9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

Handbrake’s H264 test sees Ryzen 7 6800U splitting the difference between the power-restricted Core i9-12900H and the highly comparable Ryzen 7 5800U.

Thanks to a strong ability to maintain clock speeds, Ryzen 7 6800U is matching up to the chassis-restricted Core i9-12900H and the power-limited 12700H in Handbrake H265. That final comparison to those big and chunky MSI laptops is very impressive from ASUS and AMD’s 1kg ultraportable.

7-Zip shows a solid performance gain for the Ryzen 7 6800U versus its predecessor. This result is likely aided by the deployment of speedy new LPDDR5 memory too. The gap to higher-powered Intel 12^th Gen Core processors is not too large, which is favourable for AMD.

6400MHz LPDDR5 should result in high memory bandwidth scores, but as is often the case for AMD platforms, we don’t see particularly large numbers compared to Intel solutions. It is good to see that there’s no half-speed write penalty on this Ryzen 7 6800U-based ASUS laptop though. And latency isn’t particularly positive, either, as we expect from LPDDR4 or LPDDR5.

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