Benchmarks: CPU
There was little doubt that an 8C16T Zen 3 mobile chip would storm to the top of the multi-threaded charts. As it should, because it is equipped with a much higher power budget than the other comparison laptops.
Though it peaks at the highest speed seen on an AMD chip to date, the way in which Asus modulates the frequency is interesting.
The first five or so minutes sees the Ryzen 9 5980HS crank up to a package power (PPT) of 40W. After that, as the skin temperature escalates, with the APU STAPM becoming the limiting factor, PPT is dialled back to 35W or so.
Still, averaging over 3.3GHz across 16 Zen 3 threads is impressive in such svelte form, and running the same Cinebench R23 test for 10 minutes, instead of one iteration, only reduces the average score to 11,198. In other words, no major drop-offs.
