As our readers pointed out in the comments as well, the only real advantage these chips can currently provide over Intel is in the GPU department.
Instead of using the new Zen3 or even the previous Zen2 architecture, it’s the based on the older Zen+. The AMD Ryzen chips in Chromebooks aren’t the same as the ones you’ll find on Windows. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, though. Under “high” load, I noticed that performance would start to choke. Lengthy and media-heavy WordPress editing pages slowed to a crawl on this machine, with the i3-equipped HP machine showing better performance. That bottleneck can be hit under fairly menial tasks, too. I noticed that the Lenovo C13 Yoga would choke under load well before Intel machines I use. An HP 14C Chromebook with a 10th gen Intel Core i3 reported 946/1537 as well.īut that’s just benchmarks how does it translate to real-life usage? Unfortunately, the story is similar. That’s pretty rough compared to the Acer Spin 713, which reported 999/3541 in the exact same test and conditions, just with a 10th gen Intel Core i5 chip. I’ve also run into tests the reported back 729/2944. The numbers are wildly inconsistent, though. Using Geekbench, the C13 Yoga reported 884 single-core and 2945 multi-core scores. In terms of raw numbers, the Ryzen 5 fell a fair bit behind Intel counterparts in my testing. Unfortunately, I don’t have good news to report on this chip. In terms of price, it sits roughly in the same place as the Intel Core i5. Lately, my go-to Chromebook has been the Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga, one of the first Chromebooks available for purchase with a Ryzen chip, specifically the Ryzen C.
That’s why we were pretty excited last year when AMD announced an expansion of its offerings for Chromebooks, including the arrival of Ryzen chips in laptops from AMD, Lenovo, and more. Most people building or buying a PC right now are way better off investing in AMD over Intel, and that story mostly extends to Windows laptops using the chips as well. AMD’s consumer-oriented chips are taking that market by storm with crazy amounts of raw horsepower and special features while undercutting Intel on price. If you’ve at all followed the PC gaming space, Ryzen may sound familiar. Over the past several weeks, we’ve had the chance to use one of the first AMD Ryzen Chromebooks and put it through its paces, and the results are a bit of a mixed bag.
In the past year or so, AMD has taken a bigger interest in Chromebooks, bringing its Ryzen chips to the platform. After 10 years, Chrome OS has become the second-most popular operating system for computers in the world, and as a result, we’re seeing more players in the place.
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