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Other than the UBS-C only IO, there’s little to complain about the daily-use experience and the practicality of this design. Note: We haven’t yet tested any of the Ryzen U 7000 platforms. I’m updating this section in the future, as we get to review the Ryzen 77840U, Ryzen 7 7735U and Ryzen 7 7730U processors. However, the ZenBook S 13 is a 13-inch ultraportable design, thus Asus could only implement limited sustained power settings here. As a result, and paired with the quiet fan profiles and basic thermal design, the Ryzen 7 6800U runs at between 15 to 25 W of power in this chassis, and I’ll explain how this impacts the platform’s performance further down in this review. Finding an Intel Alder Lake P-series laptop this generation was rather difficult, as like with AMD systems, availability has been quite limited. The i7-1260P isn't the fastest part Intel are offering, but it was the fastest we could get to make this review, and seems to be deployed in more laptops than the 1280P at this time.
There’s little to complain about the overall thermal performance of this design, even closer to the 25W sustained power settings. Still, fresh air intake is somewhat choked with the laptop sitting on the desk, so you should consider opting for a cooling pad for long work/gaming sessions.Balanced/Standard – allows the hardware to run at 15-25W in sustained loads, with fans ramping up to ~36 dB; This section is reserved for designs based on mid-tier AMD Ryzen U platforms such as Barcelo-R and Cezanne, with Zen3 Cores and Vega graphics. Model Finally, I’ll also mention that this 2022 ZenBook S 13 running on the Ryzen 7 6800U platform ends up outmatching last year’s ZenBook 13s running on the Ryzen 7 5800U platform by 10-20% in CPU multi-threaded loads, and by 50-80% in the GPU loads. That’s no surprise, given the 5800U and 6800U are similar on the CPU side, but the major update for the 2022 Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt generation is the transition to the much more capable Radeon 680M iGPU.
With these out of the way, we also ran a couple of DX11, DX12, and Vulkan titles on the Performance profile of this Ryzen 7 6800U with Radeon 680M graphics, at FHD+ resolution, with Low/Lowest graphics settings.However, the performance uplift over the 5800U is minimal, Intel are certainly delivering a much larger gain gen-on-gen, so those with an 11th-gen processor or older should definitely consider an upgrade. Our Microsoft Excel benchmark is faster on the 6800U than the 1260P, though these results will be affected to some degree by LPDDR5 vs DDR4 in our test systems. Excel is quite memory and cache sensitive, so it's one of the few benchmarks where the newer Zen 3+ design from AMD is notably faster than the prior generation – here it's 16 percent faster. Intel also benefits with a 45 percent performance gain, but in this instance this doesn't see them take the lead. Before re-reading in a quieter environment I have two questions about GPU performance which is meant to be the big selling point of this generation :
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