Acer Swift Edge SFA16-41 16 Inch Laptop - (AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, 16GB, 1TB SSD, AMD RDNA2, 4K OLED Display, Windows 11, Black)

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When looking at power scaling, the Ryzen 7 6800H is essentially equivalent in performance per watt to the Ryzen 9 5900HX at all levels, scaling in the same manner as previous Ryzen processors. So effectively what we're getting across generations is the same performance at a lower bin, or better performance at the same bin. The Ryzen 9 6900HS we tested earlier still has superior efficiency across the power range and shows what near-best-case Zen 3+ silicon can do.

For decompression though, there's nothing separating AMD and Intel products. Ryzen has always been particularly good in this benchmark and it's that aspect to the chip that allows the 6800H to perform well despite usually coming in below the 12700H in other benchmarks. In Chromium code compilation it's an easy win for Intel and their 12700H. The Core i7 CPU is 24 percent faster than the 6800H, and while the 6800H is no slouch among AMD's line-up, for serious code compilers Intel's Alder Lake series is the way to go. Gen-on-gen the 6800H is providing a 9 percent performance increase, so that's in-line with what we saw in Cinebench.Just make sure you understand the particularities of OLED panels on laptops, and that the full-panel brightness is only around 400-nits for the non-touch variant and 350-nits for the touch model, so this is not going to be ideal in bright light environments, where the glare of the glass-covered screen adds into the mix. Meanwhile in comparison to Intel it's clear that the Ryzen 6000 generation is not as efficient for high-power devices as Alder Lake. In the lower power range like 35W and 45W it's very close as to which models are more efficient, though there is a small gap between 12700H and 6800H. Then in the higher power ranges Intel really takes a big stride to outperform AMD and around 75W and 85W you will see much higher multi-thread performance from Intel. The 6800H actually maxes out around 86W, which sees the CPU hit 4.1 GHz all-core, and increasing the power level further doesn't see any more gains to performance. It'll be up to a brand new architecture and node come Zen 4 to close this gap between AMD and Intel for high-power laptops. Gaming Performance First AMD Ryzen 7 6800U benchmarks: Closer to Core i7-1260P in multi-core, Radeon 680M impresses in synthetics but lags in gaming The average 6800U in our database easily shoulders its way towards the best of the best, trading blows with the Core i7-1270P, the Core i7-11850H and the Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H as far as multi-thread benchmark scores are concerned. Throw everything you can at this little guy. He'll take it all and ask for more.

I have hardware from all these generations. E.g. a Kaveri A10-7850K with 512 SMs that required optimal DDR3-2400 DIMMs to benefit and did only marginally better than the 384 SM variant because it was starved for bandwidth.

Then, in 2022, AMD launched the Rembrandt Ryzen 6000 mobile hardware built on the revised Zen3+ architecture and TSMC’s 6 nm process node. Acer’s partnership with AMD allows us to continue to push boundaries for gamers,” said James Lin, General Manger, Notebooks, IT Products Business, Acer Inc. “Powering our systems with the latest processor technologies enhances the gameplay experience by giving customers the performance they need to play – and win.” At 321 nits of brightness, the Zenbook S 13 is absolutely usable. But the MacBook won out again at 435 nits, while the Yoga 9i (352 nits) and Ideapad Slim 7 Carbon (369 nits) were also both a bit brighter. In 2021, AMD launched the updated Ryzen 5000 series of APUs, which, confusingly, consist of two broader types of processors: some based on a marginally revised Zen2+ architecture, as part of the Lucienne Zen2+ platform, and some based on the newer Zen3 architecture, under the Cezanne platform.