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MagyarThe Ultimate Core i7-1065G7 and Ryzen 7 3700U/2700U CineBench comparison: How does Intel Ice Lake hold up against 15 other AMD Ryzen laptops?
The first Ice Lake laptops are finally on store shelves just as Intel had promised back in CES 2019. Dell, HP, and even Razer have all begun shipping their respective premier models each equipped with the 15 W or 25 W 10th gen Core i7-1065G7 designed to replace the last generation Whiskey Lake-U Core i7-8565U and compete directly with the mobile AMD Ryzen U series.
We recently had the chance to check out the Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 in all its glory to be our first in-house Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake system. With so much back-and-forth between this particular processor and the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U, we decided to compare the CineBench scores of the i7-1065G7 to every AMD Ryzen 7 3700U and 2700U laptop we've tested thus far. (buy XPS 13 7390 2-in-1, i7-1065G7 now at Amazon)
Before starting, we should note that this comparison is between only the XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 against multiple AMD laptops. Other laptops with the same i7-1065G7 are likely to perform differently than what we've recorded here with the Dell convertible. Furthermore, we're not taking into account the various other benefits that Ice Lake offers over mobile Ryzen including integrated Thunderbolt 3 support, higher performance-per-Watt, more efficient Iris Plus GPU, smaller 10 nm manufacturing node, and the integrated AI acceleration. We're looking solely at the raw CPU multi-thread performance of the laptops.
The graph below represents the CineBench R15 Multi-Thread scores of eight AMD Ryzen 7 2700U laptops, seven 3700U laptops, and the one Core i7-1065G7 in the Dell convertible. This benchmark test would be looped at least 20 times in succession for each laptop since ULV CPUs tend to perform faster during the first few loops when Turbo Boost clock rates are highest before stabilizing at lower clock rates and thus lower final scores.
A few interesting observations between the Core i7-1065G7 and Ryzen 7 3700U can be made based on the results above. Firstly, the Intel CPU is able to offer much faster multi-thread performance than any existing mobile Ryzen U series laptop during the initial 4 to 5 loops or so. CPU performance can drop by as much as 21 percent thereafter meaning that all those other benchmark comparisons between Ice Lake and mobile Ryzen out in the wild right now paint an incomplete performance picture of Ice Lake because they are not taking into account the throttling over extended periods of time.
Even after accounting for the performance throttling, however, the Core i7-1065G7 is still able to outperform most AMD Ryzen 7 3700U laptops. The key word here is "most" because one Ryzen 7 laptop comes out on top: the Lenovo ThinkPad E595. This particular laptop is able to maintain a minor 3 to 4 percent lead over the i7-1065G7 once the Turbo Boost clock rates of the Intel CPU have settled down.
A small handful of other Ryzen 7 3700U laptops are also neck-to-neck with the i7-1065G7 in raw multi-thread performance. The AMD-powered Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14API, Acer Nitro 5 AN515-42, and even Dell's own Inspiron 15 5000 5585 are each behind the Core i7-1065G7 by just a few percentage points at most.
Does this mean that the best Ryzen 7 3700U laptops available perform essentially the same as a Core i7-1065G7 laptop? Not necessarily. The much higher initial Turbo Boost clock rates of the Intel CPU allow it to launch applications and multi-task more swiftly than a Ryzen counterpart. Day-to-day usage scenarios benefit from small "bursts" of higher CPU performance and so an Ice Lake laptop will still feel faster than the Ryzen 7 3700U assuming all else is equal. It's unlikely that users will be subjecting their laptops to 100 percent CPU utilization for extended periods unless if there is heavy video encoding or editing involved. If that's the case, you'd be better off with a Ryzen H series or Core H series laptop instead.
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| Cinebench R20 | |
| CPU (Single Core) | |
| Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 Core i7 | |
| Dell Latitude 14 5495 | |
| Lenovo ThinkPad E595-20NF0000GE | |
| Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14API | |
| Lenovo Yoga 530-14ARR-81H9000VGE | |
| HP Envy x360 13-ar0601ng | |
| Average AMD Ryzen 7 3700U (285 - 368, n=5) | |
| Dell Inspiron 15 5000 5585 | |
| HP 14-dk0008ng | |
| CPU (Multi Core) | |
| Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 Core i7 | |
| Lenovo ThinkPad E595-20NF0000GE | |
| Lenovo IdeaPad S540-14API | |
| Lenovo Yoga 530-14ARR-81H9000VGE | |
| Dell Inspiron 15 5000 5585 | |
| Dell Latitude 14 5495 | |
| Average AMD Ryzen 7 3700U (1047 - 1560, n=5) | |
| HP Envy x360 13-ar0601ng | |
| HP 14-dk0008ng | |
