Today nosotros're completing our testing of AMD's Ryzen Mobile 4000 APUs with a look at the Ryzen 7 4700U and Ryzen 5 4500U, two mainstream chips in the series that have become bachelor in a wider range of laptops in the past few weeks. Testing all of AMD's Zen 2 APUs has been a challenge due to laptop availability – these chips launched mode back in March – but today nosotros tin find several ultraportables from the likes of Lenovo, HP, Asus, Acer, and others sporting these processors, making this review to a must to follow upward to our 4800U, 4800H, and other APU testing.

The Ryzen 7 4700U is AMD'southward mainstream Ryzen 7 mobile processor, equally it's the well-nigh widely bachelor chip in the series forth with the Ryzen 5 4500U. You go eight cores and 8 threads, so like the 4500U, there's no SMT support, but nosotros exercise become that increment from 6 to 8 cores.

With that comes a small-scale base clock decrease down to two.0 GHz, merely a heave increase upwardly to 4.one GHz. There'due south also eight MB of L3 cache and 12MB of total cache on the processor. The CPU cores use the Zen ii compages and the entire chip is a monolithic die built on TSMC's 7nm node.

Model Cores/
Threads		 Base of operations Clock Heave Clock GPU CUs GPU Cores GPU Clock TDP
Ryzen vii 4800U 8/16 1.8 GHz 4.two GHz 8 512 1750 MHz 15W
Ryzen 7 4700U 8/8 2.0 GHz 4.1 GHz 7 448 1600 MHz 15W
Ryzen 5 4600U 6/12 two.ane GHz 4.0 GHz 6 384 1500 MHz 15W
Ryzen 5 4500U 6/six two.3 GHz 4.0 GHz 6 384 1500 MHz 15W
Ryzen 3 4300U iv/4 two.seven GHz 3.vii GHz v 320 1400 MHz 15W

For the GPU, we see an increase over the Ryzen five 4500U in both CU count and clock speed. We're getting 7 CUs in the 4700U, one short of a fully unlocked GPU, plus a 1600 MHz maximum clock speed. The Vega compages is used on Ryzen 4000's graphics.

Sitting either side of the 4700U in this table are the two SMT-enabled parts, the 4800U and 4600U, and it'll certainly be interesting to run across how 8 cores and 8 threads compares to 6 cores and 12 threads in these mobile processors.

The examination platform for today's video is the HP Probook x360 435 G7, an enterprise focused system that comes with a lot of security and management features built-in despite HP choosing not to use AMD's Pro SKUs. This is non the sort of laptop that we would personally buy and while some aspects to it are quite nice, we're using it as a testbed primarily for the purpose of this review.

For testing the only modify nosotros fabricated to the system was swapping out the 16GB unmarried-channel memory that the laptop shipped with, for 16GB of dual-channel memory using the same DDR4-3200 spec. Using a single DIMM will adversely impact operation, that's why we test all laptops using a dual-channel configuration and thus after comparisons are more straightforward.

Usual exam notes besides apply as well. This means nosotros test all laptops and their APUs with the same power configurations, which gives us the almost authentic apples-to-apples numbers nosotros can achieve. This allows us to take a more generalized look at how the processors themselves perform, rather than how a specific laptop performs with any configuration the OEM decides to ship. Ability is, of course, crucial to mobile hardware equally there'south normally a hard power limit with these systems to fit everything into the constrained thermal design. Then we keep everything here on an equal playing field.

The bodily functioning you see in a laptop volition depend on how the manufacturer chooses to configure it, for example, whether they choose a 15W or 25W long term power limit, and how they configure the boost period. Sometimes y'all'll see performance faster than we show, sometimes slower, just information technology'due south of import to keep this in mind.

Nosotros've tested the Ryzen 7 4700U in both 15W and 25W long term power configurations. In keeping with most Ryzen laptops we've tested, both configurations have a boost period where power is increased to around 35W for upwards to a few minutes. At 15W this heave period is roughly ii minutes, and at 25W information technology'south roughly 5 minutes. Again, not all laptops volition follow this pattern, but it'south a common configuration. We'll be focusing on the 15W numbers today, but the 25W results are also in the charts. Allow'southward go into information technology.

Benchmarks

Starting with Cinebench R20 as usual, the Ryzen seven 4700U is impressive. With 8 cores and 8 threads, the 4700U is almost twice as fast as the quad-core Core i7-1065G7 in this multi-thread workload, and also threescore% ahead of the 6-core Cadre i7-10710U. There'southward no doubting the latest Ryzen 7 parts are offering course leading multi-thread performance by a mile.

Unmarried thread operation is likewise respectable, coming in slightly faster than the 1065G7. Not a big margin at that place by whatever stretch, but considering where AMD used to be in mobile, matching what Intel has to offer is a good event.

Still, there are more interesting numbers to consider here. While the 4700U is twenty% faster than the 4500U in multi-thread and 5% faster for unmarried-thread, the viii cadre eight thread pattern isn't faster than the half dozen core 12 thread Ryzen v Pro 4650U a.chiliad.a. Ryzen 5 4600U. Nosotros're looking at essentially the same performance.

The 4700U does lead for unmarried-thread, just is slightly slower for multi-thread. At first glance this might be a bit strange, merely the benchmark numbers from AMD'due south launch result but show a 4% margin between these parts in Cinebench, the smallest margin betwixt whatever of the Ryzen parts. So nosotros guess from that perspective it'southward not that unusual to see a result like this.

In that location's also quite a significant gap to the Ryzen 7 4800U. Adding SMT to the 8 cadre part, and perhaps with ameliorate binning every bit well, allows the 4800U to be thirty per centum faster in this workload. For reference, adding SMT to the six core SKUs improved performance by 22 percent. Then that's simply another interesting point to annotation.

In Handbrake, the 4700U is marginally faster than the 4650U, in keeping with what we saw in Cinebench. It just seems like the 8C/8T design has like overall efficiency for multi-core workloads relative to the 6C/12T approach when kept to the same power levels. However that'south merely comparison AMD to AMD.

The 4700U is 92% faster than the Core i7-1065G7 in this workload, showing Ryzen'southward authorisation over Ice Lake for any serious multi-cadre productivity piece of work.

Blender is another workload where the 4700U is quite faster than Ice Lake, but the margins do close up relative to other AMD processors. The 4700U is really slower than the 4650U here, and only 6 percent ahead of the 4500U.

So at that place's still a operation gap between Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 parts, at to the lowest degree the nearly common SKUs in that series. The gap is not as meaning every bit in Handbrake or Cinebench where margins were closer to xx percent.

The 4700U remains a powerful processor for code compilation relative to lower tier U-series parts. For GCC compilation, the 4700U is 62% faster than the 1065G7 equally information technology's able to harness its atomic number 82 in both single thread and multi thread processing.

We're seeing just an 11% margin compared to the 4500U though, so Ryzen 5 is presenting a lot of value. Similar results for Chromium compilation besides if y'all are interested, this is a very long workload to run.

For Microsoft Excel, this is a state of affairs where the eight core, viii thread design is ameliorate than vi cores with 12 threads. Our number crunching benchmark presents a 25% lead for the 4700U over the 1065G7, but besides quite large leads over the 4500U, at virtually thirty%.

Then the 4800U is another step up and like a lot of the workloads we've been showing so far, AMD'southward meridian of the line processor is definitely ane to look out for with class leading performance.

In PCMark's productivity workload, the Ryzen vii 4700U is a capable chip that delivers first-class results for tasks that are quite common on a U-serial notebook. The 8 core blueprint without SMT is favored here over the SMT design in an outlier among our testing, leading to effectually a 10 percent improvement over other processors y'all might be considering like the 4500U or Water ice Lake.

The Essentials workload, which covers app loading and web browsing, the 4700U is a strong performer but it's not that much faster than other U-series chips.

There's just a few percent either fashion betwixt about Ryzen APUs and Ice Lake, so right now there isn't much separating Renoir and Intel'due south 10th-gen parts. The 4800U does take a pace above these chips, but for a lot of the basic stuff you'll be doing on a laptop, the 4700U is very capable.

Ryzen is an accented fauna for decompression, offering a huge performance lead over Intel. However, what we've seen in previous reviews is that AMD's chips really benefit from SMT in this test.

The 4800U is 60% faster in this workload with its sixteen versus eight threads, and the 4650U with 12 threads is also a faster chip. With that said, cores are also important, assuasive the 4700U to concur a 30 percent lead over the 4500U.

In MATLAB, there's not much separating the 4700U from 4500U, both deliver very similar operation and again the SMT-enabled parts are superior. Considering of this, Ice Lake gets a rare win over the 4700U hither, although it loses to the 4800U overall.

Nosotros too see a very modest performance lead for Ice Lake in Acrobat PDF to PNG exporting but in this single-thread workload margins are tight and quite similar to other unmarried-core tests.

The concluding productivity test nosotros're looking at is Adobe Photoshop. Like several other lightly-threaded workloads we've been looking at, we don't see huge margins between about U-serial processors.

The 4700U at 15W ended up 5% ahead of the i7-1065G7, and most 12% alee of the Ryzen 5 4500U. Those are decent gains and definitely a reason to upgrade from a Ryzen 5 to Ryzen 7 part for people that do a lot of image editing on their devices.

Gaming Performance

Now time for some gaming benchmarks, to come across how the extra compute unit and college clock speeds translate into gains. In GTA Five which also hits the CPU quite hard, there isn't much separating the Ryzen seven 4700U and 4800U, despite the 4800U having the faster GPU.

The CPU does appear to be playing a role here, and it delivers strong performance overall. Nosotros are seeing small gains on lower tier products like the 4500U and 4650U.

In Civilization VI, the 4700U isn't much faster than the 4500U or 4650U at 15W, there merely isn't a ton of headroom for this fleck to show what is has to offer. Just at 25W, the taps are opened a bit and the 4700U ends upwardly pulling abroad, with average frame rates near x% higher than the six-core models.

While the 4650U, for example, doesn't benefit much in this championship from a college ability limit, the 4700U and also 4800U exercise do good, and so it'southward worth being on the lookout for laptops that can handle more juice.

In CS: GO, functioning is expert, especially at 25W, where the Ryzen 7 part is able to average over 100 FPS. We're non quite at the performance levels Ice Lake can deliver at 25W, but overall operation is practiced and we'd say these sorts of laptops are proficient enough for low-cal esports titles at a native 1080p with competitive settings.

Gears 5 is a heavily GPU limited game running at Medium settings, and then far no integrated GPU is capable of a consistent 30 FPS experience at these settings. With that said, the 4700U is ane of the better APUs hither. This chip outperforms Ice Lake at 25W with a 37% margin, and narrowly beats the MX250 as well, when paired with the 1065G7.

The 4800U is still the faster chip with a fully unlocked Vega design, it's about 16% ahead here, simply the 4700U itself is 17% faster than the 4500U, so definitely a expert reason to upgrade when paired with the other advantages of this scrap.

The 4700U also delivers great performance in F1 2022 with the Ultra Low preset for an ultraportable. The 7 compute unit of measurement design stretches its legs hither, particularly at 25W, delivering 44 FPS on boilerplate which is playable.

Performance Summary

When reviewing the benchmark data on a head to caput comparison, we come across a similar story to past Ryzen reviews when comparing the Ryzen 7 4700U to the Core i7-1065G7.

In multi-thread workloads, the 8 core blueprint even without SMT is able to evangelize up to twice the operation, with strong leads in of import tasks like 7-Nil decompression and lawmaking compilation. The 4700U is also competitive in single-thread tests, holding its ain for basic productivity tasks and photo editing. It'southward non a universally faster processor, but when the 4700U is faster, it tends to be a lot faster.

There are besides plenty of reasons to upgrade your laptop from a 4500U to 4700U configuration during the buy process. You can look xx-30 pct better multi-thread performance, which is good scaling from the addition of two cores in the same power envelope.

The 4700U also has the reward of college unmarried-core turbo clocks, and then 1T applications and basic tasks are faster, too. Getting x% better functioning in Photoshop is practiced for moving up a tier.

Where things get actually interesting is comparison the 4700U to the 4650U. The 8 cadre 8 thread blueprint does non appear to exist more efficient than the 6 core 12 thread model in all workloads.

There are times when the 4700U is faster, similar in Handbrake and Excel, but other times where the 4650U is faster, like code compilation and Blender. The 4700U does have the edge in gaming and lightly threaded tasks due to its higher spec configuration, but it's articulate that adding more than cores isn't necessarily better than simply adding SMT.

As for the Ryzen 7 4700U versus 4800U, well information technology's clear the 4700U is quite a chip slower in most workloads. We're seeing twenty to thirty per centum worse performance in multi-thread workloads, and single digit differences for lightly threaded tasks. The 4800U is a very powerful chip at 15W and sits at the meridian of AMD's product stack for a reason.

We retrieve it'southward also worth showing merely how much faster the 4700U is over the 3700U.

The Ryzen 7 4700U is twice as fast in many multi-thread workloads, and up to 2.5x faster in Handbrake, where the new Zen 2 compages is a lot meliorate for treatment that sort of test. And then for unmarried-thread, the 3700U was really terrible. The 4700U is xxx to 40 percent faster, which is but crazy.

What We Learned

Having covered all cardinal products in AMD's mobile lineup, we now have a pretty comprehensive expect at Ryzen Mobile 4000 spanning both the U and H serial. In example y'all want to accept a look, see our previous reviews for the 4800U, 4800H, 4900HS, 4600H and 4500U.

There'southward a few chips withal missing that we haven't tested, like the Ryzen 3 4300U, merely we've covered all the big ones.

The 4700U is much faster for multi-threaded workloads and roughly equal for unmarried-thread relative to Ice Lake. And while nosotros could spend much of this conclusion going through how much faster the 4700U is over Intel's tenth-gen processors, the fact is Intel is most fix to drop 11th-gen Tiger Lake, which volition bring a heave to both unmarried cadre and multi-threaded performance. Previews prove Intel is getting an edge in single threaded tasks again, while unable to match Ryzen for multi-thread.

We expect Tiger Lake to show up this holiday flavor in numerous laptops, in the meantime, let's stick to the new and interesting takeaways from this testing.

There is a decent performance gain between the Ryzen 5 4500U and Ryzen vii 4700U. These are the ii most common Ryzen chips on the market place and are the two configurations offered for most Ryzen laptops, and so the difference between them we're sure is of involvement to a lot of people.

Previously, with many Intel generations there wasn't much separating Cadre i5 and Core i7 mobile CPUs. With Skylake back in 2022, for example, both i5 and i7 models had 2 cores and 4 threads, and the same GPU. The difference commonly amounted to enshroud and clock speeds. The Core i7 was a bit higher specced, so you lot got a small functioning upgrade. Fifty-fifty today, there's limited partitioning in Intel'due south line-up.

With Ryzen, the 4700U offers xx% gains on the 4500U in multi-thread workloads thanks to those 2 extra cores. That may give buyers a legitimate incentive to upgrade. You likewise become faster single-thread performance and better GPU performance, too, then the overall departure betwixt these chips is pregnant.

We call back today'due south review as well answers the question of why the Ryzen five 4600U is totally absent in the market. There'due south not much of a performance deviation between it and the 4700U. In our opinion, having both the 4600U and 4700U is a flake unnecessary, nosotros really only need one, and OEMs seem to call up so as well. Their option to favor the Ryzen 7 function, with its more than marketable name and ability to exist sold at higher price points makes sense from their perspective.

Anyone that's bought a Ryzen 7 4700U device over the last few months it's been bachelor should be pretty happy with what they've received. It's certainly a improve choice performance-wise than any Ice Lake or Comet Lake processor, and we wouldn't recommend anyone buy a 10th-gen Intel laptop with Tiger Lake's release now imminent.

We do look a fierce boxing between Intel and AMD in the months alee. So while the Ryzen 7 4700U is an excellent buy right now, when Tiger Lake hits the market that may change. In detail, we'd expect Tiger Lake to make strides forward in GPU and single-thread performance.

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