Since AMD launched the Ryzen 7000 series processors, it has achieved significant advantages in many aspects such as performance and energy efficiency optimization. It not only performs well in traditional computing tasks, but also provides powerful AI acceleration capabilities through the built-in Ryzen AI engine.
This innovative design enables notebooks with built-in Ryzen AI engine to provide users with a more efficient and smarter application experience through efficient image and video processing capabilities.
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The recently launched HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition is equipped with the Zen4 architecture AMD Ryzen 7040H series standard pressure processor. This article will conduct a detailed review of the HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition and give you a more detailed understanding of Ryzen. Dragon 7040H series standard pressure processor, and the charm of HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition.
1. Powered by Ryzen AI engine, AI drawing is easy
The Ryzen 7000 series mobile processors are divided into Ryzen 7020, 7030, 7035, 7040 and 7045 series. Among them, the 7040 and 7045 series adopt the latest Zen4 architecture. They are also advanced in terms of process technology, cache, core threads, and integrated graphics cards. Slightly different.
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This time we focus on the Ryzen 7040 series. This series of processors are also equipped with AMD’s latest RDNA 3 architecture graphics card, with up to 12 CUs.
It also supports the Ryzen AI dedicated engine of the XDNA architecture, which can bring an advanced and efficient AI experience.
The Ryzen AI engine is a hardware engine specially designed for AI reasoning and computing. It is based on the XDNA AI architecture and consists of multiple independent AI units with independent memory voltage units, memory controller units and high-speed interconnection channels. It can flexibly process different AI neural networks directly and locally without delay and with high efficiency.
In addition, it has real-time multi-tasking capabilities, can handle up to 4 concurrent spatial streams, and has the advantage of high energy efficiency. More importantly, after moving the AI workload from the cloud to local hardware, latency can be greatly reduced, no queuing is required, thereby speeding up processing, and it can also help keep sensitive data out of the cloud, ensuring user privacy.
Therefore, the Ryzen AI engine can bring users a richer real-time AI experience in image and video processing, voice processing, office work, entertainment, games, and security protection.
AMD and Microsoft have in-depth cooperation on the Ryzen AI engine. Microsoft has built the Ryzen AI engine into its Windows 11 operating system.This allows users to enjoy more special effects when conducting video conferencing or using webcams, such as automatic framing, eye contact, and advanced background special effects.
The realization of these special effects functions benefits from the powerful computing power of the Ryzen AI engine. Microsoft’s Windows Studio Effects (studio effects) fully utilizes the capabilities of the Ryzen AI engine.
In addition to the video experience, the Radeon 780M graphics card integrated into the Ryzen 7 7840H processor can also support Stable Diffusion’s AI graphics output through DirectML.
As the most powerful integrated graphics card currently, the Radeon 780M graphics card is very fast in terms of AI graphics. According to the test, it only takes 57 seconds to generate one picture. Therefore, the Radeon 780M graphics card can meet the needs of fast and efficient AI graphics.
two,Hardware performance testing
1. CPU
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H uses the leading 4nm FinFET process, 8 cores and 16 threads, 16MB L3 cache, base clock frequency 3.8 GHz, maximum acceleration clock frequency 5.1 GHz, and configurable power consumption of 35-54W.
The design of all large cores can provide excellent multi-threading performance and run at high frequency. In addition, it also integrates Radeon 780M, which uses the latest RDNA 3 architecture, has 12 computing units and a graphics frequency of up to 2.7GHz, significantly improving image performance. It also supports the AI acceleration engine Ryzen AI, which is the world’s first dedicated artificial intelligence hardware based on the x86 platform and can achieve efficient AI computing.
· CINEBENCH
The test results of CINEBENCH R20 can be seen, the single-core score is 689 pts, and the multi-core score is 6245 pts.
CINEBENCH R23 test, single-core score 1775 pts, multi-core score 15730 pts.
· Geekbench 6 test
Geekbench can measure processor performance through practical daily scenarios and data sets, and gives CPU single-core and multi-core scores. It is also a commonly used CPU performance benchmarking platform. The test results show that the Ryzen 7 7840H processor has a single-core score of 2375 and a multi-core score of 11942 on Geekbench 6.
· 3DMark CPU Profile
3DMark CPU can evaluate the performance of each thread of the CPU and give scores respectively. The results show that the maximum thread score of the Ryzen 7 7840H processor reached 7412.
· 7-Zip Benchmark
7-Zip is a commonly used compression and decompression tool. Its built-in benchmark test can perform compression and decompression based on the maximum number of threads of the CPU and give a score. The results show that the overall score of AMD Ryzen 7 7840H on 7-Zip reached 97 GIPS.
·X264 FHD Benchmark
Video encoding and decoding is also one of our more commonly used operations. In the X264 FHD Benchmark test, AMD Ryzen 7 7840H can achieve a smooth encoding and decoding frame rate of 69 fps.
2. GPU
In terms of GPU, the Radeon 780M graphics card equipped with the Ryzen 7840H processor uses the latest RDNA3 architecture, has 12 computing units, a frequency of 2.7GHz, and supports “light pursuit” and 8K 60Hz “AV1 codec”. These features enable it to deliver stunning visuals and smooth gaming experience.
In the Fire Strike test, the graphics card scored 8206 and the overall score was 7576.
· PugetBench for Ps, Pr testing
In terms of content creation, we used PugetBench for PhotoShop and PugetBench for Premiere Pro for testing, and the test scores were 1132 and 426 respectively. HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition can also be easily used for content creation.
3. Battery life
HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition has a built-in 68Whr battery. Using the modern office test of PCMark 10, it can get 11 hours and 52 minutes of battery life before remaining 4% of the battery. For a thin and light notebook, this kind of battery life is completely It can meet the needs of daily mobile office and worry-free power consumption on short-term business trips.
After understanding the main features of the Ryzen 7000 series processors, especially the efficient experience brought by the AI engine blessing, let’s continue to learn about the appearance design and main features of the HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition laptop.
4. Appearance design
HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition inherits a classic, simple and stylish design in appearance, but the French fries HP LOGO on the A side instantly elevates the temperament of the product to a high-end one.
The slightly tipsy pink color scheme is not only suitable for girls, but also matches the temperament of white-collar workers in the workplace. The whole body is made of metal, which has better texture and higher strength than the plastic body, and the seams of the body are also better controlled. The body is as light as 1.45kg and only 16.99mm thick. It is lightweight and portable and can be easily put into a backpack, making it suitable for working anytime and anywhere.
HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition is also equipped with a 14-inch, 2.8K OLED screen with 100% DCI-P3 high color gamut coverage. It not only has a wide field of view, the color display is more realistic, but also has high contrast and high brightness, making it The picture quality is more vivid.
It is worth mentioning that this screen also provides a variable refresh rate of 48Hz-120Hz, which can automatically change the refresh rate according to different applications. For example, when watching movies, video rendering, and games, a higher refresh rate makes the picture more vivid. Smooth. In addition, it has passed TV Rheinland low blue light certification and TV Eyesafe certification to protect users’ eye health at all times.
The top of the screen is equipped with a 5-megapixel IR camera, and it supports physical camera shielding to ensure personal privacy leakage after the video. Face recognition, and Windows Hello login are fast and safe.
The metal body on the C side and the keycap design of the same color as the body bring a better sense of integration. The keyboard feels very comfortable, with moderate key travel and strong rebound. You will not feel tired even if you type for a long time. In addition, it also supports three-level adjustable backlight function, making it easy to input in dark light environments.
The touchpad is large in size and feels comfortable in the hand, and supports multi-finger gesture operations such as scrolling pages, zooming, and dragging windows. In addition, the touchpad’s response speed is also relatively fast, enabling smooth operation.
In terms of interfaces, the layout of HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition is also very reasonable. For example, there are USB interfaces on both sides of the fuselage, which is convenient for connecting keyboards, mice, or using mobile hard drives. In addition to a USB-A interface on the left side of the fuselage, there is also a headphone/microphone two-in-one interface. When participating in online meetings or watching TV shows at home, you can wear headphones to be more focused.
The right side of the fuselage provides a USB-A 10Gbps interface, an HDMI 2.1 interface, and two USB-C interfaces, and supports charging, data transmission, and video output functions.
All in all, the HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition is not only unique in appearance and quality, but also outstanding in performance, heat dissipation, battery life, screen quality, keyboard experience, interface scalability, etc. As a thin and light notebook, it covers almost all users’ needs for mobile office, truly achieving “one machine in hand, I have the world”.
5. Write at the end
From the above comprehensive evaluation, we can see that the HP Star Book Pro 14 Ryzen Edition notebook with built-in Ryzen AI engine brings excellent use to users with its efficient work performance, powerful processing power and thin and light body design. experience.
With the continuous development of artificial intelligence technology, notebooks with built-in Ryzen AI engine are expected to exert their advantages in more fields. For example, in image processing, video editing, virtual reality, etc., the powerful computing power of Ryzen AI engine will bring users faster processing speed and higher work efficiency.
In addition, with the popularization of 5G technology, notebooks with built-in Ryzen AI engine will also have more application scenarios, such as remote office, online education, smart home, etc.