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6 Cores, 6 Threads @3.7GHz, Coffee Lake.
Release date: Q4 2018.

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Effective Speed 
+30%
Real World Speed
Performance profile from 325,577 user samples
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321,194 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 103% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 5.15 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 82% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg)
Poor: 82% Great: 103%
SPEED RANK: 120th / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 93%
Nuclear submarine
Desktop
Desktop 95%
Nuclear submarine
Workstation
Workstation 77%
Battleship
4,383 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 90% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 46% Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 0.5 GHz (avg)
Poor: 46% Great: 90%
SPEED RANK: 366th / 1442
Gaming
Gaming 72%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 73%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 68%
Battle cruiser
Effective Speed
Effective CPU Speed 		93.2 % Much faster effective speed.
+30% 		71.5 %
Average Score 
+25%
Memory
Avg. Memory Latency 		91 Pts Lower memory latency.
+30% 		70.2 Pts
1-Core
Avg. Single Core Speed 		135 Pts Faster single-core speed.
+27% 		106 Pts
2-Core
Avg. Dual Core Speed 		268 Pts Faster dual-core speed.
+29% 		207 Pts
4-Core
Avg. Quad Core Speed 		525 Pts Much faster quad-core speed.
+34% 		393 Pts
8-Core
Avg. Octa Core Speed 		688 Pts +3% 667 Pts
Overclocked Score 
+6%
Memory
OC Memory Latency 		96.5 Pts Lower OC memory latency.
+18% 		82 Pts
1-Core
OC Single Core Speed 		153 Pts Slightly faster OC single-core speed.
+7% 		143 Pts
2-Core
OC Dual Core Speed 		306 Pts Slightly faster OC dual-core speed.
+9% 		282 Pts
4-Core
OC Quad Core Speed 		604 Pts Faster OC quad-core speed.
+11% 		543 Pts
8-Core
OC Octa Core Speed 		822 Pts 950 Pts Faster OC octa-core speed.
+16%
Value & Sentiment 
+5,732%
Market Share
Based on 67,697,615 CPUs tested
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		1.15 % Insanely higher market share.
+11,400% 		0.01 %
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		92 % Much more popular.
+64% 		56 %
Nice To Haves 
+39%
Age
Newest 		65 Months 48+ Months More recent.
+26%
64-Core
OC Multi Core Speed 		848 Pts 1332 Pts Much faster OC 64-core speed.
+57%
64-Core
Avg. Multi Core Speed 		717 Pts 958 Pts Much faster 64-core speed.
+34%
Conclusion 
Average Bench 93.2%
Average Bench 71.5%
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Ryzen 4000 Mobile CPUs offer benchmark busting multi-core performance on the go, but marketing hype aside, it’s unclear how this will translate to real world performance. Sixteen threads are great for beating benchmarks including UserBenchmark 64-core, Cinebench, Blender-CPU and Handbrake-CPU but gamers need performance in the games that they actually play. At launch, the top GPU available in a 4000 series laptop is the RTX 2060. Since the GPU is largely responsible for overall gaming performance, the Ryzen 4000 laptops will offer mid tier gaming performance at best. Pairing stronger GPUs would be suboptimal because the Ryzen gaming bottleneck becomes increasingly severe with more powerful GPUs. Streamers and media producers, who may have historically benefited from high core counts, are better off using the GPU (NVENC or QuickSync) for encoding. Leading media creation applications including both DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Premiere Pro are largely GPU bound. With low power consumption and high core counts, the 4000 range, on paper at least, is a perfect fit for the datacenter. AMD should focus on delivering a platform that offers performance where end users actually need it rather than targeting inexperienced gamers with the same old "moar cores" mantra. From a gamer’s perspective, the best feature of the 4000 series laptops is the absence of the equally hyped 5000 series GPUs. Prospective gaming laptop buyers will find lower latency (and therefore better gaming) CPUs combined with faster GPUs at similar price points. [Mar '20 CPUPro]

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