Every AMD Ryzen 7 4800H laptop we've tested thus far have been outperforming the Intel Core i7-10875H and Core i9-10980HK, but there's a catch

In the world of laptops, it's inaccurate to say that one processor is faster than a competing alternative without a large enough sample size as we've demonstrated many times before. However, we can certainly notice trends along the way and the current trend for the Intel Comet Lake-H series versus the AMD Renoir-H series is leaning more and more towards AMD's favor.
We've reviewed 7 laptops with octa-core Comet Lake-H or Ryzen 7 Renoir-H processors thus far and the systems running on AMD hardware have been consistently edging out their Intel counterparts in multi-threaded workloads. The Blender rendering benchmark, for example, finishes almost 40 seconds faster on the AMD-powered Eluktronics RP-15 when compared to the fastest Core i7-10875H laptop currently in our database. CineBench multi-thread results are also about 15 percent higher on average with the Ryzen 7 4800H.
The key area where Intel still holds the advantage is in single-threaded or single-core operations. The 7-Zip compression/decompression benchmark, for example, runs 15 percent faster on Intel hardware when set to a single core while the opposite is true when all cores are enabled.
The main challenge for Intel is that more applications and games are beginning to better exploit multi-core setups meaning any advantages in single-thread operations will become less relevant to most gamers and content creators over time. If you're in the market for a high-performance octa-core laptop, it's going to be difficult to recommend an Intel Comet Lake-H platform especially when you start to factor in the price parity between it and the Ryzen 7 4800H.
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Cinebench R15: CPU Multi 64Bit | CPU Single 64Bit
Blender: v2.79 BMW27 CPU
7-Zip 18.03: 7z b 4 -mmt1 | 7z b 4
Geekbench 5.4: Single-Core | Multi-Core
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2: 4k Preset
LibreOffice : 20 Documents To PDF
R Benchmark 2.5: Overall mean
Cinebench R20 / CPU (Multi Core) | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB |
Cinebench R20 / CPU (Single Core) | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 |
Cinebench R15 / CPU Multi 64Bit | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS |
Cinebench R15 / CPU Single 64Bit | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 |
Blender / v2.79 BMW27 CPU | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 | |
Eluktronics RP-15 |
7-Zip 18.03 / 7z b 4 -mmt1 | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 |
7-Zip 18.03 / 7z b 4 | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS |
Geekbench 5.4 / Single-Core | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 |
Geekbench 5.4 / Multi-Core | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 |
LibreOffice / 20 Documents To PDF | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 |
R Benchmark 2.5 / Overall mean | |
Asus TUF Gaming A15 FA506IV-HN172 | |
Asus TUF A17 FA706IU-AS76 | |
MSI GS66 Stealth 10SFS | |
Aorus 17G XB | |
Eluktronics RP-15 | |
Gigabyte Aero 17 HDR XB | |
Gigabyte Aero 15 OLED XB-8DE51B0SP |
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