AMD Ryzen 5 4500U CPU Based Notebook Tested – 7nm Zen 2 Cores On Par With i5-9600K, Vega 6 iGPU Delivers Huge Boost in GPU Performance

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The embargo has yet to lift on AMD's Zen 2 based Ryzen 4000 notebooks but it looks like one of the reviews for a laptop based on the Ryzen 5 4500U slipped out by Overclockers.ua (Via Notebook Check). The review shows us a good representation of what to expect from the mainstream lineup of 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen 4000 CPU based products.

 

The product tested was an ACER Swift 3 S314-42 notebook which has yet to land on retail shelves but would be out later this month. The notebook features the AMD 'Renoir' Ryzen 5 4500 CPU that rocks 6 cores, 6 threads with a base clock of 2.3 GHz and a boost clock 4.0 GHz. The chip carries 8 MB of L3 and 3 MB of L2 cache and comes in a 15W package. The Ryzen 4000 U-series processors are ideally positioned against Intel's 10nm Ice Lake-U and 14nm Comet Lake-U chips. The Ryzen 5 4500U also comes with the updated and 7nm Vega 6 graphics core which features 384 cores and a graphics clock of up to 1500 MHz.

 

Notebookcheck put up a nice effort in comparing the notebook with a similar priced Intel solution based on the 8th Gen Core i5-8250U which features 4 cores and 8 threads. According to the tests, the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U is up to 50% faster than the Core i5-8250U which is also a 15W part. The newer Intel Core i5-10210U or the Core i5-10510U and even those based on Ice Lake-U weren't compared but one can conclude that the higher clock speeds of the 10th Gen Comet Lake-U parts or the non-availability of Ice Lake notebooks aren't going to help Intel much in the overall notebook segment.