Ryzen-powered Asus VivoBook Flip 14 shows just how badly Intel needs to launch its Tiger Lake platform

Ryzen-powered Asus VivoBook Flip 14 shows how badly Intel needs to launch its Tiger Lake platform (Image source: Asus)

When a cheap AMD VivoBook can outperform even the fanciest of Dell XPS 13, Lenovo Yoga, or HP Spectre 13 money can buy, then you know Intel is in a bad spot.

Allen Ngo, Published 08/24/2020 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 ...

Asus recently refreshed its VivoBook Flip 14 convertible series this year with both updated processor options and a brand new look. Unlike last year's model, however, only the Ryzen CPU series is available to choose from while any Intel variants won't hit store shelves until Q4 2020. Should users wait for the Intel versions or should they "settle" with the current AMD options?

Based on our time with the Ryzen 7 4700U VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA, Intel has a long hill to climb in its battle against AMD in the budget to mid-range laptop market. The Ryzen-powered VivoBook is both faster and cheaper than most — if not all — Intel Core i7 Ice Lake or Core i7 Comet Lake-U convertible currently in the market by noticeable margins. Some of these Intel convertibles may even retail for hundreds more than our VivoBook like the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 and yet our AMD-powered Asus still manages to come out on top in terms of raw performance.

Intel has no answer to the 3rd gen AMD U-series until the aforementioned Tiger Lake platform launches in Q4 2020. Even then, we fully expect these Tiger Lake laptops to cost more than the existing Ryzen laptops especially if AMD decides to cut prices and uphold their strong performance-per-dollar advantages. This ultimately means that the Ryzen 7 VivoBook and others like it will be uncontested for most of the year. Intel will really have to hit it out of the park with Tiger Lake to make the wait worthwhile.

Cinebench R20: CPU (Multi Core) | CPU (Single Core)
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)
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	2829 Points ∼100%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	2410 Points ∼85% -15%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	2401 Points ∼85% -15%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (1181 - 2598, n=5)	2012 Points ∼71% -29%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL 81Q9 Intel Core i7-1065G7	1590 Points ∼56% -44%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	1525 Points ∼54% -46%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (1081 - 2024, n=31)	1510 Points ∼53% -47%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	1492 Points ∼53% -47%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	1432 Points ∼51% -49%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	1350 Points ∼48% -52%
Lenovo Yoga C740-14IML Intel Core i5-10210U	1292 Points ∼46% -54%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T Intel Core i7-8565U	1176 Points ∼42% -58%

Cinebench R20 / CPU (Single Core)
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	461 Points ∼100%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	460 Points ∼100% 0%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (429 - 480, n=4)	457 Points ∼99% -1%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL 81Q9 Intel Core i7-1065G7	452 Points ∼98% -2%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	451 Points ∼98% -2%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	447 Points ∼97% -3%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (358 - 474, n=31)	438 Points ∼95% -5%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	427 Points ∼93% -7%
Lenovo Yoga C740-14IML Intel Core i5-10210U	421 Points ∼91% -9%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	399 Points ∼87% -13%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	369 Points ∼80% -20%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T Intel Core i7-8565U	365 Points ∼79% -21%

Cinebench R15 / CPU Multi 64Bit
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	1051 Points ∼100% 0%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	1049 (803.97^min - 1049.04^max) Points ∼100%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	973 Points ∼93% -7%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (513 - 1113, n=8)	957 Points ∼91% -9%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL 81Q9 Intel Core i7-1065G7	749 Points ∼71% -29%
Lenovo Yoga C740-14IML Intel Core i5-10210U	677 Points ∼64% -35%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	668 (646.48^min - 668.95^max) Points ∼64% -36%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (288 - 836, n=36)	648 Points ∼62% -38%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	642 (535.78^min - 642.12^max) Points ∼61% -39%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	622 Points ∼59% -41%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T Intel Core i7-8565U	581 Points ∼55% -45%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	580 Points ∼55% -45%

Cinebench R15 / CPU Single 64Bit
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	182 Points ∼100%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL 81Q9 Intel Core i7-1065G7	181 Points ∼99% -1%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	180 Points ∼99% -1%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	177.6 Points ∼98% -2%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (138 - 194, n=8)	174.9 Points ∼96% -4%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (141 - 190, n=35)	174.2 Points ∼96% -4%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	174 Points ∼96% -4%
Lenovo Yoga C740-14IML Intel Core i5-10210U	169 Points ∼93% -7%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	165 Points ∼91% -9%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T Intel Core i7-8565U	153 Points ∼84% -16%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	152 Points ∼84% -16%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	145 Points ∼80% -20%

Blender / v2.79 BMW27 CPU
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	907 Seconds * ∼100% -103%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (675 - 1650, n=23)	882 Seconds * ∼97% -97%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	815 Seconds * ∼90% -82%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	782 Seconds * ∼86% -75%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	703 Seconds * ∼78% -57%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (468 - 892, n=4)	649 Seconds * ∼72% -45%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	593 Seconds * ∼65% -33%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	585 Seconds * ∼64% -31%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	447 Seconds * ∼49%

7-Zip 18.03 / 7z b 4 -mmt1
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	4681 MIPS ∼100% +6%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (4425 - 4727, n=4)	4609 MIPS ∼98% +4%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	4425 MIPS ∼95% 0%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	4422 MIPS ∼94%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	4288 MIPS ∼92% -3%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (3289 - 4589, n=24)	4284 MIPS ∼92% -3%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	4029 MIPS ∼86% -9%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	4014 MIPS ∼86% -9%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	3555 MIPS ∼76% -20%

7-Zip 18.03 / 7z b 4
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	31114 MIPS ∼100%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	27115 MIPS ∼87% -13%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (16713 - 29948, n=4)	23912 MIPS ∼77% -23%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	23610 MIPS ∼76% -24%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	17508 MIPS ∼56% -44%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	17467 MIPS ∼56% -44%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (10406 - 22898, n=24)	17024 MIPS ∼55% -45%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	16487 MIPS ∼53% -47%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	15043 MIPS ∼48% -52%

Geekbench 5.4 / Single-Core
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (948 - 1348, n=18)	1274 Points ∼100% +10%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (1225 - 1229, n=2)	1227 Points ∼96% +6%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	1211 Points ∼95% +5%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	1157 Points ∼91%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	1098 Points ∼86% -5%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	1027 Points ∼81% -11%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	904 Points ∼71% -22%

Geekbench 5.4 / Multi-Core
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	5443 Points ∼100%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (4575 - 5839, n=2)	5207 Points ∼96% -4%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	4646 Points ∼85% -15%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (2464 - 4855, n=18)	4215 Points ∼77% -23%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	3721 Points ∼68% -32%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	3330 Points ∼61% -39%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	3154 Points ∼58% -42%

HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 / 4k Preset
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	8.81 fps ∼100%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	6.72 fps ∼76% -24%
Dell XPS 13 7390 Core i7-10710U Intel Core i7-10710U	6.032 fps ∼68% -32%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (4.2 - 7.95, n=4)	5.94 fps ∼67% -33%
Asus VivoBook 14 X403FA Intel Core i5-8265U	4.6 fps ∼52% -48%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	4.6 fps ∼52% -48%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (2.2 - 6.38, n=22)	4.58 fps ∼52% -48%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	4.37 fps ∼50% -50%
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	3.99 fps ∼45% -55%

LibreOffice / 20 Documents To PDF
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	62.2 s * ∼100% -9%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (46.9 - 85.3, n=19)	60.3 s * ∼97% -6%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	58.2 s * ∼94% -2%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	57 s * ∼92%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	55.8 s * ∼90% +2%

R Benchmark 2.5 / Overall mean
Honor Magicbook 14 AMD Ryzen 5 3500U	0.734 sec * ∼100% -20%
Average Intel Core i7-1065G7 (0.661 - 0.798, n=18)	0.708 sec * ∼96% -16%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	0.686 sec * ∼93% -12%
Average Intel Core i7-10710U (0.649 - 0.674, n=2)	0.662 sec * ∼90% -8%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Ryzen 5 4500U	0.639 sec * ∼87% -5%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL Intel Core i7-10510U	0.638 sec * ∼87% -4%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Ryzen 7 4700U	0.611 sec * ∼83%

* ... smaller is better

3DMark | 3DMark 11

3DMark
1920x1080 Fire Strike Graphics
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 NVIDIA GeForce MX350, i5-1035G1	4457 Points ∼100% +47%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL NVIDIA GeForce MX250, i7-10510U	3819 Points ∼86% +26%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU), i7-1065G7	3156 Points ∼71% +4%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Radeon RX Vega 7, R7 4700U	3036 Points ∼68%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), R5 4500U	2876 Points ∼65% -5%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T NVIDIA GeForce MX150, i7-8565U	2874 Points ∼64% -5%
Average Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) (1418 - 3156, n=26)	2584 Points ∼58% -15%
HP 14-dk0008ng AMD Radeon RX Vega 10, R7 3700U	2581 Points ∼58% -15%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Radeon RX Vega 5, R3 4300U	2438 Points ∼55% -20%
Acer Swift 5 SF514-54T-501U Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU), i5-1035G1	1739 Points ∼39% -43%
2560x1440 Time Spy Graphics
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 NVIDIA GeForce MX350, i5-1035G1	1370 Points ∼100% +52%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL NVIDIA GeForce MX250, i7-10510U	1163 Points ∼85% +29%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Radeon RX Vega 7, R7 4700U	903 Points ∼66%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T NVIDIA GeForce MX150, i7-8565U	862 Points ∼63% -5%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), R5 4500U	852 Points ∼62% -6%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU), i7-1065G7	835 Points ∼61% -8%
HP 14-dk0008ng AMD Radeon RX Vega 10, R7 3700U	779 Points ∼57% -14%
Average Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) (526 - 851, n=23)	744 Points ∼54% -18%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Radeon RX Vega 5, R3 4300U	733 Points ∼54% -19%
Acer Swift 5 SF514-54T-501U Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU), i5-1035G1	453 Points ∼33% -50%
Asus ZenBook 14 UX433FA Intel UHD Graphics 620, i7-8565U	402 Points ∼29% -55%
2560x1440 Time Spy Score
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 NVIDIA GeForce MX350, i5-1035G1	1522 Points ∼100% +48%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL NVIDIA GeForce MX250, i7-10510U	1282 Points ∼84% +25%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Radeon RX Vega 7, R7 4700U	1028 Points ∼68%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), R5 4500U	967 Points ∼64% -6%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T NVIDIA GeForce MX150, i7-8565U	961 Points ∼63% -7%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU), i7-1065G7	945 Points ∼62% -8%
HP 14-dk0008ng AMD Radeon RX Vega 10, R7 3700U	863 Points ∼57% -16%
Average Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) (587 - 963, n=23)	840 Points ∼55% -18%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Radeon RX Vega 5, R3 4300U	825 Points ∼54% -20%
Acer Swift 5 SF514-54T-501U Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU), i5-1035G1	512 Points ∼34% -50%
Asus ZenBook 14 UX433FA Intel UHD Graphics 620, i7-8565U	461 Points ∼30% -55%

3DMark 11
1280x720 Performance GPU
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 NVIDIA GeForce MX350, i5-1035G1	6448 Points ∼100% +31%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Radeon RX Vega 7, R7 4700U	4927 Points ∼76%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL NVIDIA GeForce MX250, i7-10510U	4785 Points ∼74% -3%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU), i7-1065G7	4613 Points ∼72% -6%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), R5 4500U	4400 Points ∼68% -11%
HP 14-dk0008ng AMD Radeon RX Vega 10, R7 3700U	4056 Points ∼63% -18%
Average Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) (2112 - 4630, n=28)	3996 Points ∼62% -19%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T NVIDIA GeForce MX150, i7-8565U	3560 Points ∼55% -28%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Radeon RX Vega 5, R3 4300U	3535 Points ∼55% -28%
Acer Swift 5 SF514-54T-501U Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU), i5-1035G1	2516 Points ∼39% -49%
Asus ZenBook 14 UX433FA Intel UHD Graphics 620, i7-8565U	1979 Points ∼31% -60%
1280x720 Performance Combined
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 15IIL05 NVIDIA GeForce MX350, i5-1035G1	5296 Points ∼100% +47%
Asus VivoBook S14 S433FL NVIDIA GeForce MX250, i7-10510U	4546 Points ∼86% +26%
Lenovo Yoga C940-14IIL Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU), i7-1065G7	4045 Points ∼76% +12%
Lenovo IdeaPad 5 14ARE05 AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000), R5 4500U	3767 Points ∼71% +5%
Asus Zenbook 14 UX433FN-A6023T NVIDIA GeForce MX150, i7-8565U	3707 Points ∼70% +3%
Asus VivoBook Flip 14 TM420IA AMD Radeon RX Vega 7, R7 4700U	3601 Points ∼68%
Acer Swift 3 SF314-42-R27B AMD Radeon RX Vega 5, R3 4300U	3288 Points ∼62% -9%
Average Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU) (1319 - 4163, n=28)	3189 Points ∼60% -11%
HP 14-dk0008ng AMD Radeon RX Vega 10, R7 3700U	2698 Points ∼51% -25%
Acer Swift 5 SF514-54T-501U Intel UHD Graphics G1 (Ice Lake 32 EU), i5-1035G1	2257 Points ∼43% -37%
Asus ZenBook 14 UX433FA Intel UHD Graphics 620, i7-8565U	1800 Points ∼34% -50%

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