When buying a laptop, I often get asked what brand should I choose for my laptop? Should I choose a thin and light notebook or a gaming notebook? Is there any laptop that is good in performance, thin and portable? Every time I am asked about this kind of question, I must first ask the budget to determine the price range and then ask for the needs, and recommend notebook products based on the budget and demand.
In the past two years, with the rise of the mobile processor of AMD, players have given more room for choice in notebook selection. With the launch of AMD Radeon RX 6000 series mobile graphics cards, AMD has also launched gaming laptop products that only have the A+A platform. Thanks to AMD's updated process, laptops that use A+A combination will have more advantages in battery life and energy efficiency than Intel+NV products.
So how should you choose at the same price? Here I happened to get a Rescuer R9000X 2022 (Ryzen 7 6800H+Radeon RX 6600S), and compared it with another laptop that uses Intel i7-12700H+3050TI configuration.
In addition to the key configurations of GPU and CPU, other core configurations, such as storage, memory, overall machine power consumption, size and other hardware specifications, are consistent. Compare with you to see if there are only two variables: CPU and GPU, the comparison of the two in hardware scores, productivity tests, game frame count and battery life will be given a reference. The specific configuration is as shown in the figure below. The configuration using Intel i7-12700H+3050TI was selected to compare the combination of AMD Ryzen 7 6800H+6600S. The price of Intel is slightly higher than that of the two sets of configurations. The 80W 6600S performance in graphics cards should be comparable to that of the 3050Ti gaming capabilities. If you are also curious about the performance comparison between the two in different dimensions, please continue.
rarely has the opportunity to compare two products from different platforms in the same era at one time. It is just that on one side it is A platform and on the other side it is Intel+NV combination. I have been asked the most about how players or users should choose when choosing. Here we also narrow the variables. simply compares how to choose between 3A platform thin and light gaming laptops and Intel+NV platforms.
Savior R9000X 2022 16:10's 16-inch screen still has a strong visual impact at present. The resolution of 2560*1600 is combined with the ultra-narrow border design of the 165Hz high-brush e-sports screen. I believe there are still many users who like this laptop . If you have any worries about configuration selection, you can follow me to take a look.
Another thing that attracts me is when I go out every day. It also supports 135W USB-C power supply, and you can choose not to bring the original charger when you go out. If powered by 135W USB-C, the measured performance can still reach about 85% to 90% of the performance when using a 170W adapter. This is still worth noting for a thin and light gaming laptop.
In addition to the C port that can be powered by 135W, the standard SD card reader interface is also a rare configuration in many gaming notebooks and thin notebooks. If you choose it as a productivity tool, then congratulations on choosing the right choice.
performance comparison test:
directly test, here is the AMD Ryzen 7 6800H and Intel i7-12700H, among which the Ryzen 7 6800H mobile processor adopts a 6nm process, adopts a Zen 3+ architecture, and has 8 cores and 16 threads. The basic frequency is 3.2GHz, the maximum acceleration frequency is 4.7GHz, 16MB Level 3 cache, and TDP is 45W. In terms of Intel, the i7-12700H mobile processor is based on the Intel 7 process and has 14 cores and 20 threads, including 6 performance cores and 8 performance cores. The single core frequency of the performance core is as high as 4.7GHz, and 24MB of super large L3 cache.
test conditions:
1. During the following tests, the notebooks are turned on the independent display direct connection mode;
2. During the test, the performance brutal mode is turned on;
3. During the test, the ambient temperature is 26℃; in the performance test of the
0 processor, thanks to Intel's large and small core design. Through the CPU-Z test software, it can be seen that the processor performance is still stronger than 12700H.However, the advantage of choosing the 3A platform should still be AMD's intelligent adjustment of power consumption, adapting to adjusting the power consumption of CPU and GPU. Users do not need to manually adjust, further enhancing the user experience. Thanks to the advantages of 6nm process technology , the battery life performance is enhanced while not losing performance. In terms of comprehensive performance, the combination of Ryzen 7 6800H+6600S and the combination of 12700H+3050Ti can be said to be comparable to the PCMark10 comprehensive performance test scores, and the score difference is not large.
processor test -ZIP scores can be seen. The above picture is AMD and the following picture is Intel. The compression speed of 6800H is 55472KB/s, and the total decompression and compression score is 81.666GIPS. The compression speed of 12700H is 71849KB/s, and the total decompression and compression score is 92.734GIPS. In addition to the
processor, the graphics card has the biggest difference between the two laptops. One is the AMD Radeon RX 6600S designed with 80W TDP, and the other is the NVdia RTX 3050Ti designed with 95W TDP. Both graphics cards also have a 4GB video memory design, and the test was conducted using the independent direct connection mode. Unlike NV's 3050Ti, you may not know much about AMD's Radeon RX 6600S graphics card. This graphics card was only met with you on CES at the beginning of this year. The S at the end of 6600S refers to Slim, which is different from the AMD Radeon RX 6000M series. The 6600S is designed by AMD for thin and light gaming laptops. In terms of performance, we can see that compared with the 95W 3050TI, the 6600S did not let the 6600S fall. Through the D Mark performance test, we can see that in most tests, the 6600S, which only 80W, scored better than the 3050Ti. However, the 3050Ti performance is slightly stronger in ray tracing, and it is also expected that it will be slightly behind in ray tracing projects. In other tests, the scores of the 6600S graphics card are significantly higher than those of the 3050Ti.
If you pursue performance, it is not for the sake of the game. I believe you are pursuing productivity performance just like me. Here we also test video editing projects and image processing projects through UL's performance testing software Procyon for productivity applications as an example. The video editing project targets Pr editing software for Adobe, and the image processing function is Adobe's Lr and Ps software. From the test, it can be seen that the test score of 12700H is better than the performance of 6800H in terms of productivity. The score difference in picture processor is 8.2%, while the score difference in video processing is less than 10%.
Game test:
running scores and productivity performance, game performance should be the most concerned players. After all, the configuration has come to this point, and it is daily for playing games with the daily use of 165Hz high refresh e-sports screen.
The game test was also turned on, and the graphics card mode was set to the independent graphics direct connection mode.
You can see that when switching graphics card mode, you can open the display settings in the lower right corner through the Lenovo management software. The display mode switching requires a restart to achieve. In terms of games, whether it is a gaming laptop or a thin gaming laptop. More players must choose for a better gaming experience, so what if they choose in hardware selection? Here I will share with you through several games I often play. Here I mainly compare the game tests at 1920*1080 resolution and combined with 2560*1600 resolution.
First of all, the two chicken-eating games tests, "PUBG" and "Yongdao Wujian", because neither game has a built-in Benchmark. Here, the frame rate changes are checked through the MSI Afterburner software. You can see that the frame rate of the 3A platform is better than the Intel+NV combination in the frame rate comparison of the "PUBG" game under the same picture quality. The test is a bit different when FSR 1.0 and DLSS2.0 are supported in "Eternal Tribulation" to enable FSR 1.0 and DLSS2.0. At 1080P resolution, the performance improvement brought by 3050Ti is still very obvious. In the "Eternal Journey" test, the game frame rate performance of 3050Ti is significantly better than that of 6600S. We also look forward to more games that support FSR2.0 to meet players early in the future.
"Cyberpunk 2077" game test, I conducted an in-game Benchmark test under four different picture quality options: Super ray tracing + FSR super performance, Super ray tracing, Super, and Medium picture quality at 1080P resolution. Through the test, we can see that the frame rate performance of 3050Ti and 6600S when gaming under high picture quality can be seen that the frame rate performance of the two is similar when the Super Ray Trace + FSR Super Performance is turned on. However, when only choosing better game quality is enabled, the frame rate of 3050Ti is better than that of 6600S. If the picture quality is reduced to a moderate level for the sake of smooth gaming experience, the game frame performance of both games will return to the same level.
The same situation comes to another game that supports ray tracing, FSR1.0 and DLSS. You can see that the 6600S and 3050Ti games are basically the same when the ray tracing is not turned on at the highest quality of "Tomb Raider" without turning on ray tracing at 1080P resolution, but after turning on ray tracing, the frame rate of 6600S is obviously lagging behind 3050Ti. The game frame rate of 3050Ti at 2.5K resolution is better than that of 6600S.
In the performance of racing games, what I often play here is "Forza: Horizon 5". Here we also compare the frame rate performance of 6600S and 3050Ti through the in-game Benchmark test. It can be seen that the AMD Radeon RX 6600S graphics card game frames overall are better than the 3050Ti performance when gaming at 1080P resolution, and the 3050Ti game frames slightly surpass the 6600S performance under the highest image quality at 2.5K resolution.
in the five games Benchmark tests of "Horizon: Zero Dawn", "God of War", " Far Cry 6" and "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey/Valvus" can be seen that the game frame rate performance of the 6800H+6600S platform is significantly better than the 12700H+3050Ti performance, and many game frame rate leads by more than 20%. It can be seen that the 6600S graphics card can basically reach more than 80 frames under high image quality at 1080P resolution. The average number of games in the two games, "God of War" and "Horizon: Dawn of Zero" can exceed 100 frames under high image quality at 1080P. If you want to play smoothly at 2.5K picture quality, you can also get a good gaming experience when choosing high picture quality.
cooling performance and noise test:
The two test laptops, in addition to the key configurations of GPU and CPU, other core configurations, such as storage, memory, overall machine power consumption, size, etc., are consistent. Here we also pass actual tests to compare the differences in the heat dissipation and noise tests of the two laptops. When disassembly, you can see that Lenovo's internal structure design level is really "pleasing" among similar gaming books. Good internal space planning brings reasonable configuration and good heat dissipation performance.
First of all, test the noise. In the indoor environment noise of 36 minutes, you can see that the maximum noise of 6800H+6600S under double baking is 57.6 decibels, and the maximum noise of 12700H+3050TI is 57 decibels, and the noise performance is consistent. In terms of the heating condition of
, the temperature and heating position of the Rescuer R9000X 2022 after 30 minutes in the oven are shown in the figure. It can be seen that the heat dissipation performance of the Frost Blade Pro 4.0 heat dissipation system designed by Lenovo is still very powerful. From the top view in the middle of the figure below, it can be seen that a large amount of hot air is also discharged at the four air outlets of the fuselage.
battery life performance:
You can see that the two models use the same 99.99Wh battery. So will the battery life behave consistently like the cooling test? Here I also talk about the test results.
In order to ensure the consistency of the test, I chose two software that can test the theoretical cycle to directly test the battery life performance. One is PCMark10 and the other is UL Procyon. PCMark10 passes modern office scene testing, Procyon tests battery life through video playback.It can be seen that thanks to AMD's power consumption adjustment for its own CPU and GPU, the battery life of the 3A platform using 6800H+6600S is significantly ahead of the 12700H+3050Ti combination. It can be seen that the battery life of the laptop using 6600S in the PCMark10 test reached more than 9 hours, while the battery life of the 3050Ti is only about 4 hours, and the comparison is even more obvious in the Procyon test. The laptop battery life of the 6600S graphics card reached 13 hours, while the battery life of the 3050Ti is less than 4 hours. For a laptop product, we should have more unplugged mobile office or learning scenarios to use it. Faced with the current high-intensity work and study, I believe that while choosing a high-performance laptop, I will also pay great attention to its battery life and weight.
Summary
The above is like this. Through the test, it can be seen that the 3A thin and light gaming laptop using AMD Ryzen 7 6800H+AMD Radeon RX 6600S graphics card has better performance in gaming performance and battery life tests than the combination of similar configurations of 12700H+3050Ti at the same price. In particular, in terms of battery life, it can be said that the biggest advantage of choosing a high-performance 3A laptop. For high-performance players with battery life, the 3A platform is undoubtedly very competitive. However, in terms of productivity, Intel's 12700H is currently performing better, suitable for you to use productivity in a powered environment more often. But if you want to take into account daily gaming, productivity and mobile use, I believe that a 3A laptop with excellent battery life will be more suitable for you. After all, when choosing a laptop, I definitely value its performance release and battery life when using it. At least for me, a user who has many years of experience in using laptops, battery life and weight are considered at a higher priority when choosing. This is the case with
or above. I hope this comparison test on CPU and GPU performance will help you in your choice. However, when you choose, you should consider the differences between different models, such as whether different screen color gamut, resolution and refresh rate will have an impact on your experience. For example, the difference in the thickness and heat dissipation of the notebook bring different performance releases. When choosing laptops, you should consider them from multiple dimensions, but I believe that choosing laptops with big brands will be more reliable under the same conditions.
