AMD Ryzen 7 6800U Review – with ASUS ZenBook S 13 OLED

Media consumption is one of the areas where AMD targeted sizable improvements with the Ryzen 6000 SoC; we now get decode support for 8-bit and 10-bit H.265/HEVC and VP9, and there’s even support for AV1.

As shown in the video review, we tested with a variety of H264 and HEVC footage from Panasonic DSLRs and GoPros.

AMD’s Ryzen 7 6800U will play this content fine, albeit with occasional judders for the 200Mbps 4K60 HEVC 10-bit Panasonic S5 file. 8K30 YouTube is also fine on the 6800U but 8K60 is unplayable in Chrome.

Meanwhile, Intel’s Core i7-1260P or 1165G7 will run all this video media without a sweat. In fact, the Core i7-1260P wasn’t even pushed hard when simultaneously playing 8K60 YouTube alongside the 200Mbps 4K60 10-bit HEVC video file in VLC media player.

Based on my testing with multiple real-world video sources, Intel’s media consumption capabilities are still far superior to AMD’s, but Ryzen 7 6800U is an improvement over Ryzen 7 5800U and is probably good enough for now for most users.

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