Best Laptop CPU? AMD Ryzen 7 6800H vs Intel i7-12700H

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6800H vs 12700H Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:08 CPU Spec Differences
0:31 Laptops Tested
1:06 Video Sponsor + Giveaway
1:50 Battery Life
2:20 Power Limits
2:31 Cinebench R23
3:11 Power Draw
3:33 Clock Speeds
3:48 Temperatures
4:11 Power Scaling (Performance at Different Power Levels)
6:10 Blender
6:29 V-Ray
6:49 Corona Renderer
7:07 Linux Kernel Compilation
7:34 LLVM Compilation
7:59 Compression & Decompression
8:29 Adobe Photoshop
8:42 Adobe Premiere
8:57 DaVinci Resolve
9:07 Handbrake Video Transcode
9:29 Microsoft Office
9:41 Geekbench
9:56 12700H vs 6800H - 45W TDP
10:26 12700H vs 6800H - 80W TDP
10:54 When To Pick Intel or AMD
11:21 iGPU Gaming Comparison
11:46 PCIe Bandwidth
12:12 Price Difference
12:30 21 Games Compared at 1080p & 1440p

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[songsongsingasong]

For those confused about the CPU alphabets in the back:
．H (High Performance) - usually consumes more power
．U (Ultra-low power) - more battery efficient, consumes less power, seen in laptops
．Q (Quad-core)
．G3/G5/G7 (Integrated graphic card - higher the better integrated graphic card performance)
．F (No integrated graphics card)
．X (High number of cores)
．K (Allow overclocking - but usually means it may easily overheat)
．P (New terminology for the Intel Core 12th gen, means that CPU has "big/small" multicore)

[madcrowmaxwell]

I think that the 6800H is the obvious choice for people who plan on using their laptops as laptops (frequently unplugged, doing light tasks, etc) but who still want capable gaming performance when they plug in at home. The 12700H strikes me as more suitable for "mobile desktop" type situations, where the machine seldom gets used on battery power.

[vikrantshinde]

So Amd bettery lasts two times the intel and at a compromise of 14% slower speed. Would definitely go for Amd. That 14% doesn't make huge difference in real life but battery life does during mobility

[FedorablePenguin]

That power scaling graph for Cinebench was really cool to see. Definitely hope to see that for future laptop CPU-focused videos! (Not that these need to happen more than once a generation or so)

[madpistol]

TDP doesn't necessarily equate to power efficiency. It's obvious that the 6800H is far more power efficient due to the battery life tests. The fact that performance is so close while using less power shows that AMD has done their homework this generation.

[drchtct]

Thanks for the review! As a little hint for improvement, add different colors for intel and AMD, so that it's easier to directly see first glance who is ahead in the graph

[collegemathematics]

Both AMD and INTEL are so powerful nowadays for most people in a way that I don't think these performance differences matter anymore. However, the most important aspect now is power efficiency.

[infinityphotorob]

It would be really interesting to see this same test with no liquid cooling. Will the intel i7 get throttled and performance get crushed? What are your thoughts on that?

[Osama-wjgn]

If you check the power scaling chart at 60W and 120W for Intel, the TDP was doubled and the performance was increased by 25%, ask yourself if you would really treat a laptop like that for 25% increase in performance and then you'll know which CPU suits you better. I go for efficiency & battery life on a laptop.

[teddym]

The other thing about AMD is that you can do the registry hack that enables a one button turbo disable power profile in control panel, it's really as easy as on and off, and at 3.3ghz base clock for the 6900hx or indeed 3.2 for the 6800H, you can play ANY game and keep temps and noise super low. Disabling turbo on the intel chips leaves stupidly low base clocks. I've done extensive testing on this, and at 3.3ghz the 5900HX/3070 non TI, 140w, played any AAA+ title perfectly, so the 6900HX will too. In fact it was the best compromise cause the CPU could be heavily loaded and it wasn't stressing the thermals, and allowed the GPU to max out.

[VorteX_SH]

I would take 11hours of battery life over 10% performance improvement, That too plugged in, Ryzen makes more sense for me, 12th gen is still a very solid performing cpu, It more suited for laptop users that keep it connected to power supply, I personally don't keep it plugged, Except during gaming so I don't need intel

[darrell]

Thanks again for giving us quality content that can't be found anyplace else.

[Athaeus]

I only wish this test was made without the liquid cooler, to better represent how one would use a laptop. Extremely interesting results regardless, and an exceptionally well-made comparison. Thanks Jarrod!

[yogeshmehta]

Great video, but I wish you could've compared the temperatures in a comparable way. The liquid cooling makes a big difference, and even if they aren't thermal throttling, the fan noise is an important difference

[bradmorri]

On my legion 5 pro with 5800H, the limiting factor to performance is the built in 60A limit for the TDC setting. It doesn't matter what CPU wattage limit you set above 82Watts, it will not go higher because of the tdc limit combined with the fixed 1.218V set in the bios. Without the ability to play with CPU voltages, 82W is as much as I can get out of the cpu. It is a shame that the curve optimizer is not available to these cpus.

[alun]

So basically if you’re mostly stationary and you want the best plugged in performance, go for Intel.

If you’re mobile, want great performance on the go + long battery life, go for Ryzen.

[Themazcorner]

Thanks for the video as always! I recently received my Legion 5i Pro with 12900H/3070Ti/32GB/1 Tb. I use it for content creation and it is really smooth for that use renders 4k videos in a breeze in Premiere Pro. However the battery life is really really bad :D

[JoelEbuka]

It's obvious that Intel needs a lot of power to perform as expected. If performance is what you need for say gaming or serious media creation them Intel might have what you need but if you're looking for a chip that's good on pretty much all sides and gets the job done, with 2x battery life, especially for a thin and light form factor AMD is the way to go

[Gansito]

This is why AMD is king in efficiency. When their 4000 series laptops dropped, more and more companies wanted their chips in their laptops. Someone sold me a dell g15 with a ryzen 7 6800h paired with a 3050 for $450. Best deal ever.

[RurouTube]

I don't think comparing 6800H at 80W doesn't necessarily means it will perform at 80W. The extra TDP for AMD might benefit the iGPU but not necessarily the CPU. Intel E-core is more like performance accelerator instead of making the CPU more efficient, as in they add E-core not to win on efficiency but to get those extra multicore performance win. So basically Intel is faster while also using a considerable more energy while AMD is slower but much more efficient without actually using what Intel called "efficiency" core.
For most laptop that you want to carry around (so thin and light category), AMD laptop should be the better choice. If you want ultimate performance, then Intel is the answer.