to say i can't believe this it is consistently running at 63 watts
bravo amd and asus for giving us this level of performance
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been absolutely destroying intel lately but they're not the only
ones in the game amd has really been stepping it up and
they put out a claim saying that their new 5000 series is the
fastest mobile processor so we are going to put
that claim to the test today and compare that brand new amd chip in
this brand new g14 zephyrus against the m1 macbook pro
and not only are we going to take a look at cp performance both for simple tasks
and heavy workloads and benchmarks but we're also going to take a look at
real world tests such as photo editing video editing
browser speeds and more and along with that we're going to be testing out how
hot these machines get we're going to pull out our thermal
camera we're going to listen to the fan noise so this is going to be
one interesting comparison now before we jump into those performance tests i have
to quickly share a few key differences between these
machines as you guys can see they are much
different the macbook pro is a thin and light ultra book it does
have a single fan whereas the g14 is much thicker it is
much heavier it has vents all around it props itself up off the
desk when you open up the display so it can
suck in and exhaust as much air as possible
so it is a gaming laptop it is not as ultrabook it is designed for maximum
performance so it's not completely fair in that way
and along with that it also has this massive power brick that's 180 watts
compared to 61 watts so it draws a lot more power as well
and i'm going to be curious to see how it performs when we go ahead and unplug
it and run some of those tests a second time
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is very reasonable for the performance that you're getting and because the g14
is a gaming laptop there's a huge different focus
on the design and everything including the display it's a 144hz panel 1080p
so that's great for gaming but it's 16x9 it's not very color accurate the
contrast isn't great so of course the macro pro screen smokes
it same thing goes with the keyboard with the trackpad with the speakers all
around it's a much different machine but we still want to see the performance
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want to do is speedometer web browser test it's
going to go ahead and test out how quickly and how responsive
your web browsing experience is and it definitely shows
you the real world performance for example the m1 max
they are noticeably snappier than my mac pro
in web browsing and this test definitely showed it in the past
here we go the brand new amd processor scored 165
runs per minute compared to 211 so the m1 mac is about 28
faster or more responsive at loading web pages
java and everything else that is tested so it's faster
but this score is excellent this is probably the fastest score that i've
seen in a laptop or maybe anything other than
an m1 and now it's time to start pushing the cpu
i have geekbench 5 opened up right here and both of these
laptops are 8 core processors that's one awesome thing
about the amd processors and with the m1 it's also an 8 core but four of those
cores are power efficiency core so only four chords are high performance now we
also have a difference in frequencies i went ahead and opened up cpu id right
over here because i want to see what frequency it can actually hit
because the maximum advertise is a massive 4.63 gigahertz which is
crazy and the base is 3.3 whereas our m1
actually only maxes out at 3.2 lower than even the base and now
we are plugged in all right the g14 is about done
single core we have 1496 compared to 1744 and multi-core
we're looking at 7322 compared to 7670 so the m1 macbook pro
is beating it out in single and in multi-core score and just to show you
guys i do have the machine set to best
performance and it is plugged in so i wanted to make sure that
these tests were accurate here so i did some digging on geekbench browser
and it looks like these scores are right in line with what
other owners of the g14 are getting now let's go ahead and unplug this laptop
and we'll see can this performance be
maintained or is it going to tank let's make sure we're set to the best
performance which it looks like we are it did go down to performance mode
no longer can we access the turbo mode and
uh let's go ahead and run this one more time the m1
i actually ran it unplugged from the get-go so this is the performance you're
getting doesn't matter if you're plugged in or
unplugged all right the test is done and we have 1028 single core
compared to 1744 when both are on battery
and 6132 multi-core compared to 7670 single core we have a difference of
about 70
that is a massive difference in performance for simple
tasks so i was curious about how that big
difference in single core performance drop actually affects real world usage
so i ran speedometer 2.0 again and as you guys
could see we dropped all the way down to 112. that's like using a computer or a
mac that is say i don't know four or five
years old uh definitely you take almost a 50 hit in
web browsing performance now i'm gonna run the compute
test built into geekbench five we're using cuda since that's what nvidia uses
and we're gonna run metal make sure to change this
for the m1 and this is where this g14 should be doing fantastic because of
that brand new rtx 3060 gpu all right guys there
you have it but look at this cuda score we have a hundred thousand
two hundred and thirty one compared to twenty one thousand eight hundred
eighty two it's almost five times higher cuda performance
that is insane of course that is plugged in once again
um i'm just curious if we go ahead and unplug it how much of that do we retain
bam right there that is awesome i am very happy
of course we did drop performance but not by that much
looks like about 10 performance dip when we are unplugged
how the integrated graphics is going to perform
with this new amd chipset so i'm going to switch over we're switching over to
opencl let's hit run alright that is actually
really good and surprising because that's very similar to what intel is
currently doing with their best mobile processors on the graphics side
and now let's do a quick gaming comparison obviously this is a
gaming machine the m1 is not and we have our results and the
g14 has a killer score of 162 frames per second
compared to 81.1 so basically double the performance in terms of
gaming at least when we're plugged in now it's also very interesting that in
geekbench the g14 got about five times
the performance whereas here two times the performance
so it's not nearing those levels and it really shows off the efficiency of the
unified architecture for the m1 graphics and if we ever get some
high-end good games for mac uh the performance is going to
be awesome relative to raw performance just like vadim talked about
in his m1 gaming video and now let's push these cpus to their limits
and see how they stack up and let's go ahead and get a baseline
reading these machines have been sitting here for about 20 minutes or so
the g14 is running at 34 degrees celsius and our m1 machine is at
30 degrees celsius it's a lot more cool everywhere all around
we just have a hot spot there and let's go ahead and hit start on our multi-core
10 minute stress test here and as far as wattage whoa
we're up at 70 we hit 70 watts here which is crazy the m1 actually maxes out
of 15 watts if you're counting both efficiency cores and the
high performance cores and as we're going this thing is flying
and we're staying above 60 watts we're at 64 right now
and as far as frequency you're looking at about 3.8
gigahertz on all eight cores uh compared to maxing out a 3.2 for the m1
now the fans are still staying about the same and then oh there you go they
kicked up as we're reaching 90 degrees celsius so definitely a lot of heat
if you guys can hear that from
from running at over 60 watts but i gotta say i can't believe this
it is consistently running at 63 watts in a machine like this now sure it's
bulkier and heavier and more cumbersome than m1
but still a small and lightweight machine running at this level of power
and the fans are keeping up with the heat
because we're sitting at 91 92 degrees celsius
maintaining 3.9 gigahertz that is crazy i gotta say
bravo amd and asus for giving us this level of performance
in a machine like this for this price so it's been about five
minutes see let's look at her thermals it looks like we're getting
44 celsius down there in the hottest spot
definitely running hot but still maintaining that performance and look at
the m1
yep so we're starting to get warm at 38 degrees celsius there
and as you guys see some of the heat kind of gets drawn back but definitely
a lot cooler and the hot spot is also smaller
okay i can i can hear a little bit not very much
all right guys we are pretty much done here and the whole time the g14 stayed
at about 63 watts which is crazy i like when machines run at their full
performance just like the m1 does so our m1 got
finished first seven thousand seven hundred and seventy
seven points that's probably because the ten minute
timer ran out and then right after that it was a little bit closer to that this
thing lapped it of course and look at that guys
twelve thousand seven hundred and forty four
points that is insane and now i'm really curious
how close to this insane level performance can we get
when we go ahead and unplug this machine let's go ahead and run that once again
i'm just going to do the single test not the 10 minute loop
all right they're finished we have our results and it looks like we got
11 519 uh which is roughly 10 lower performance
than when it was plugged in so that is actually
not bad at all way better than i expected on the m1 we got slightly
higher score of course we're running on battery both times
and now the performance difference when both these rn battery
is 48 faster or better performance
for the g14 with that 5900 hs and now let's get into
some photo editing i have lightroom classic opened up right here
and this program is not yet optimized still about six months later so i'm
gonna start out right here in the develop
stage and these files are massive they have a bunch of different corrections
already applied so let's go ahead and shift through these
you guys saw right there the amd definitely switched faster
try again wow about the same on that one about the same overall very similar
what about responsiveness if you got a punch in
very responsive there as you guys could see on the m1
with our g14 also very responsive now let's test out the brush performance
this is very difficult when we're making these uh changes on
the fly so let's press down all right pretty
dang smooth i'm gonna go ctrl z try that again a little bit of
stuttering right at the start which it's just very interesting to see this
much rap performance and it's still having that little stutter
very similar starting across the top and then when i go lower it kind of smooths
out wow all right so so far pretty close
with the g14 being just a little bit ahead and now let's
really push these machines i'm going to go ahead and build
one-to-one previews on both all right bam
the g14 with the amd processor just got finished
it did end up um catching up and then going even faster
than our m1 macbook pro which we're still waiting on bam
the m1 is done and the difference was around
40 seconds so we had about four minutes for the g14
and four minutes and 40 seconds for the m1 so this is definitely
faster but that difference in speed is anywhere anywhere near
the double the performance that we saw in cinebench r23
and now let's go ahead and export these 50 images to jpeg i went ahead and
cleared out the previews and i unplugged the g14 because typically
both these tests they kind of go hand in hand as far as percentage of
performance difference so let's go ahead and get started on both
bam we are finished up on both machines and i don't want to say that i didn't
expect this because i say that a lot but i honestly didn't expect this i think
you
are not going to expect this either uh so in terms
of raw performance in cinebench when the g14 was plugged in we had a 65
a higher performance than the m1 when we unplugged it we had about a 50
higher performance than the m1 but in the previews when we built those plugged
in we only saw about a difference of 15
faster for the amd processor now get this
with it unplugged when we exported these images the m1
was actually faster and it was actually 26 faster than the g14
it took 2 minutes and 40 seconds compared to 3 minutes and 22
seconds that just blows my mind for two reasons the first reason is
actually maybe three reasons uh lightroom is not optimized for m1
yet it's running emulated under rosetta translated
number two this gets about fifty percent higher cp performance and this is a cpu
based task and three this machine right here
has 16 gigs of ram compared to this base
macbook pro which has eight gigs of ram so this is a
basin loft for 1300 i know i showed in the beginning
the equivalent uh dif price difference if both are spec the same
with the same ram and ssd but it's also running with less ram
and it was 26 faster which i just didn't expect let me know your
thoughts down in the comment section and now let's get into video editing the
g14 is plugged back in and i have a 4k clip opened up right
here the first test i want to do is stabilization which does use the cpu
so let's go ahead and analyze and see how long this takes i'm going to start
it on both both are actually growing pretty quickly
right now adobe's trying to work on premiere to
get it to work faster on the m1 of course final cut is king
we're testing cross platform so we're going to be using premiere
the m1 is ahead we have 45 compared to 65
analyzed that is crazy and our m1 took exactly
one minute which is really fast and the amd took a minute and 25 seconds
which means that the m1 is actually about 41
faster at stabilization which is crazy and that's with
the g14 plugged in and now let's see how smoothly they can play back
this h.265 file which most ever all new cameras are now coming with
uh we're playing back 4k here with two luts and film grain
full 4k quality and neither one of these machines are having
any issues looks like both are playing it back perfect let's go
ahead and unplug the g14 it is still playing it back
pretty much perfectly smoothly now i am curious
and i want to see how much of that gpu is being
taxed yep so it looks like we're only using it about 30
whereas on the mac we're using it at 91
capacities and let's go ahead and export this five minute 4k project
we have hardware encoding enabled on both of these
all right and right off the bat this is down to under three minutes
of estimated time and here we're at seven minutes and 20 seconds
the g14 is almost done here and as you guys can see and probably here
it is just going crazy uh we're using the cpu affair a bit the graphics card's
at 78 85 percent uh surprisingly it's being
pushed to its limits and the fans are just going
crazy with high heat here our graphics card's at 100 cpu is
only at 25 so the m1 is definitely being limited by
the graphics in this specific test and there you go
the g14 with that 3060 is finished took two
minutes and 51 seconds which is crazy
now i want to run that one more time while we're waiting for our
m1 macbook pro to finish but i'm gonna unplug it and see
how it performs now and look at that it is still
running really really quickly and look at that
three minutes in seven seconds it looks like our m1 is
finally about to finish up seven minutes and
15 seconds so we have a big difference in performance
there now i will say if we're running davinci resolve that is
better optimized for the m1 than premiere that takes three minutes to do
the same test and in final cut the same exact project same effects
takes two minutes and 25 seconds and that's the program that's
completely optimized for m1 so there you guys go
my performance comparison with the brand new amd 5900
hs the chip that they say is the best mobile processor against the m1
what do you guys think is it the best mobile processor we had all those tests
we had real world tests browser test geekbench
3d rendering video editing photo editing what surprised you what did you expect
and what did you not expect i want to hear
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