Our first Ryzen 5 2500U benchmarks are in and Intel has every reason to worry
The HP Envy x360 15 and x360 13 were some of the first notebooks announced to ship with AMD's new Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 Mobile series of processors. While the Ryzen 7 SKUs are still nowhere to be found, the Ryzen 5 SKUs are now readily available as promised by the manufacturer. Our data below is a preview of the quad-core Ryzen 5 2500U in the new Envy x360 15 with the full review to come in the following week. The numbers represent our first set of in-house data for this particular processor and we were eager to get some direct comparisons against Intel's Kaby Lake and Kaby Lake-R family of processors.
Before diving into raw benchmark scores, we wanted to see if the Ryzen 5 processor will throttle when subjected to long periods of extreme processing load. Running CineBench R15 Multi-Thread in a loop results in no significant performance degradation over time to confirm that the processor shouldn't suffer from any temperature ceiling or TJMax alarms when gaming or browsing. The small-but-measurable 3 percent dip from the first run (579 points) to the second run (561 points) is a drop in the bucket compared to the 30+ percent decline from the i7-7660U in the Surface Pro tablet.
We are unable to provide core clock rates at this time since both HWiNFO64 and GPU-Z are outputting incorrect readings for the Ryzen 5 APU. We will continue to test out additional monitoring programs for the final Envy x360 15 review.
Raw CineBench scores are painting a very impressive picture for AMD's mid-range mobile offering. The CineBench R15 scores for our Ryzen 5 2500U test notebook are essentially identical to Intel's Core i5-8250U in both single- and multi-threaded loads. Even the 45 W quad-core i5-7300HQ found on most mainstream gaming notebooks is consistently slower by 5 to 10 percent against AMD's less power-hungry APU. The results are a generational leap over the best that Bristol Ridge had to offer in every sense of the word.
3DMark 11 scores for the Vega 8 in the HP convertible are unequivocally faster than the common HD Graphics solutions found on the Intel U-class family. They may not be as impressive as the recently leaked graphics capabilities of the rumored AMD-Intel Core i7-8705G, but performance is still comfortably midway between the Maxwell GeForce 940MX and Pascal GeForce MX150. When considering that these Nvidia alternatives are discrete GPUs, we can't help but commend AMD's powerful integrated solution.
Power consumption results are just as incredible for Our Ryzen 5 model. The AMD HP notebook manages to be less demanding that the Spectre x360 15 with the i7-7500U CPU and GeForce 940MX dGPU while providing a roughly 50 percent boost in multi-thread CPU performance and 20 boost in GPU performance. The performance-per-Watt is even more impressive when compared to AMD's own demanding mobile RX 460 GPU.
| HP Envy x360 15m-bq121dx R5 2500U, Vega 8, HGST Travelstar 7K1000 HTS721010A9E630, IPS, 1920x1080, 15.6" | Asus FX550IU-WSFX FX-9830P, Radeon RX 460 (Laptop), SK Hynix HFS128G32TND, TN LED, 1920x1080, 15.6" | HP Spectre x360 15t-bl100 i5-8550U, GeForce MX150, Samsung PM961 NVMe MZVLW512HMJP, IPS, 3840x2160, 15.6" | HP Spectre x360 15-bl002xx i7-7500U, GeForce 940MX, Toshiba XG4 NVMe (THNSN5512GPUK), IPS, 3840x2160, 15.6" | HP Spectre x360 15-ap012dx 6200U, HD Graphics 520, Sandisk X300 SD7SN6S-256G-1006, IPS, 3840x2160, 15.6" | |
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| Power Consumption | |||||
| Idle Minimum * | 5.9 | 5.9 | 11.6 | 8.14 | 6.5 |
| Idle Average * | 8.7 | 8.8 | 13.8 | 10.91 | 13.3 |
| Idle Maximum * | 10.5 | 9.7 | 14.2 | 12.26 | 15.1 |
| Load Average * | 45.7 | 78.1 | 67.9 | 45.67 | 30.8 |
| Witcher 3 ultra * | 45.8 | 112.4 | 59 | ||
| Load Maximum * | 49.4 | 117 | 76.9 | 74.94 | 38.5 |
* ... smaller is better
Again, expect the full rundown next week along with our take on the Envy x360 15 system as a whole. This small preview on processor performance should give a pretty good idea of how AMD intends to shake up the performance-per-Dollar war in the notebook space where Intel has been unchallenged for far too long. After all, the Ryzen-equipped Envy x360 15 is just $630 USD compared to $850 USD for a Kaby Lake-R-equipped Envy x360 15.
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