Asus ROG Flow X13: AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS no match for Flow Z13's Core i9-12900H but Radeon 680M has the GTX 1650 Max-Q in sight thanks to LPDDR5-6400

Firstly, let's have a look at the ROG Flow X13 powered by the Ryzen 7 6800HS. This laptop seems to be equipped with 16 GB of LPDDR5-6400 memory, which should come in handy for the integrated Radeon 680M iGPU.

In Cinebench R20, the Ryzen 7 6800HS scores 607 points in single-core and 5,156 points in multi-core tests. This makes it about 16.8% and 6% slower than the corresponding scores we recorded for the Core i9-12900H in the ROG Flow Z13.

In Cinebench R23, the ROG Flow X13 manages 1,539 points in single-core and 13,391 points in multi-core. In comparison to a ROG Flow Z13 with a Core i9-12900H, the AMD-powered variant is about 19.7% slower in single-core and 12% slower in multi-core parts of the test. 

The scores, especially the multi-core ones, are not really surprising given that the Core i9-12900H actually offers 14 cores and 20 threads while the Ryzen 7 6800HS is an eight core 16 thread part.

In comparison with the older Ryzen 7 5800H average, however, we do see tangible improvements across the board — 10.5% and 11.4% faster in Cinebench R20 single and multi-core, respectively and corresponding benefits of about 9% and 12% benefits in Cinebench R23.

Moreover, the Core i9-12900H in the ROG Flow Z13 works at a 55 W/114 W PL1/PL2. HXL showed screen grabs highlighting the Ryzen 7 6800H's CPU power package values in quiet and performance modes. It is highly likely that the ROG Flow X13's scores were recorded under the maximum performance profile. 

In Quiet mode, the Ryzen 7 6800H seems to be working at 11.5 W (current) and 32.18 W (maximum) package powers while in Performance mode these values go up to 54 W and 65 W, respectively. This is also reflected in the Asus Armory Crate utility. 

HXL also posted two 3DMark Time Spy scores — one from Baidu and another from Chiphell. The scores from Chiphell seem to be on the higher side, though. The integrated Radeon 680M seems to have obtained 2,689 points in the Time Spy GPU test. This is about 33% slower than the RTX 3050 Ti in the ROG Flow Z13 but a whopping 86% faster than an average Xe G7 96 EUs iGPU and about 57% faster than an average GeForce MX450. 

In comparison with a GeForce GTX 1650 Max-Q, the Radeon 680M falls just about 10% behind in Time Spy GPU, which is not at all a bad performance for an iGPU. The Radeon 680M's performance can also be attributed to the use of the faster LPDD5-6400 RAM in the ROG Flow X13.