System Responsiveness
It is not always just raw performance that’s important; system responsiveness is also a key indicator of user satisfaction. To test how fast a system can load applications, several startup tests were used, including PCMark® 10 Gimp cold and warm startup and app start.
In this situation, the Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U shows a more responsive or “snappy” performance.
Content Creation
The final performance evaluation category is around content creation. This helps to qualify how well the processors can handle heavier or simultaneous workloads, and includes the following tests:
- PCMark® 10 Digital Content Creation Test Group
- Puget Photoshop Overall Score
- Puget Photoshop General Score
- Blender Bench CPU-BMW27 (TTC)-sec
- Blender Bench CPU-ClassRoom (TTC)-sec
In this range of tests, the Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U and the Core i7-1185G7 are roughly equal except when multi-thread rendering is involved. In these tests, which can utilize the Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U core and thread advantage, the lead is well beyond the 5% threshold. For content creation tasks or high simultaneous application use, users would be well served by looking at Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U based systems with its high-performance core and thread advantage.
Putting It All Together
Combining analysis across all the different benchmarks helps to give a more complete picture to compare the two processors. With a total of 25 tests and sub-tests used for the evaluation, it helps factor out any limitations of a single specific benchmark as well as test a range of attributes at the processor, system, and application levels.
Again, the analysis considers the two processors to be equal for results that are +/-5%, which is generally the error range for many benchmark tests. The breakdown would be as shown in Table 1:
| 25 Tests And Sub-Tests Including Synthetic Benchmarks System/Application Benchmarks | Percent Of Tests With Results Withing +/- 5% (Considered Equal Performance) | Percent Of Tests With Results Greater Than 5% (Considered An Advantage) |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U | 36% | 52% |
| Intel Core i7-1185G7 | 36% | 12% |
Further, taking the geomean average for tests which report a computed score, the Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U has an average of 8% better performance across a wide variety of benchmarks.
Based on these results with a wide cross-section of different types of benchmarks, it is reasonable to predict that the AMD Ryzen™ 7 PRO 5850U is going to outperform or at least equal the performance of the Core i7-1185G7 in most situations.
As such, it would be a top choice for commercial users.
In Conclusion: A Smarter Approach To Benchmarking
Correctly evaluating performance is not a simple, one-dimensional task. There are several techniques that can be used by an organization to determine which system would best meet their needs. Since using a narrow benchmark score may lead to incorrect conclusions, the best overall picture of performance when using the benchmark strategy comes from looking at a wide range of both application-based and synthetic tests.
The final and best step in any evaluation is to allow groups of users to “test-drive” systems in their actual work environment. With a solid benchmark or application script performance used as a foundation, a trial is a final way to ensure users will be satisfied with their experience. Ultimately, this will always be the most effective way to measure real-world performance—by real-world user satisfaction.
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