AMD's 16-thread Ryzen 7 4800HS chip outruns Ryzen 7 2700X and Core i7-9700K

Prominent and reliable leaker@TUM_APISAK shared a performance report for the unreleased AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS processor on Twitter. The results are genuinely impressive:

First off, this new APU features eight cores and sixteen threads, boosting up to 4200MHz. That puts it squarely in contention with top-tier previous-generation CPUs from both Intel and AMD.

Testing results in the popular 3DMark Time Spy benchmark corroborate these assumptions:

3DMark Time Spy (CPU test only):

• AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS - 8730 Points

• AMD Ryzen 7 4800H - 8350 Points

• AMD Ryzen 7 2700X - 8600 Points

• Intel Core i7-9700K - 8200 Points

• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - 7150 Points

At just 35 watts, the Ryzen 7 4800HS chip outperforms both the 105-watt Ryzen 7 2700X and its 95-watt competitor, the Core i7-9700K.

Keep in mind that this is an APU. That means, beyond the powerful CPU component, it also packs modified Vega-level graphics — the same architecture found in the Radeon 7 graphics card.

It's also worth noting that the Ryzen 7 4800H variant only differs from the Ryzen 7 4800HS in its higher power consumption — 45 watts versus 35.

These new Ryzen APUs will initially ship in pre-built laptops. We expect AMD to announce and launch desktop versions of its 4th-gen processors with integrated graphics later.