That pass started at around 2.2GHz and curiously ended at around 2.4GHz. At default settings (active cooling and 100% maximum processor state, so with boost on) and on Recommended, the machine scored 5387 on the last pass.I recommend customising your power options to match this setting for everyday use if you mainly use your laptop plugged in and on your lap, due to heat concerns if you leave boost on. I then plugged it in and modified the power settings, changing the cooling to passive and maximum processor state to 99% so it won't boost, and it scored a 4577 at around 2.0GHz from start to finish.Fresh out of the box on Recommended and unplugged, it scored 4299 running at around 1.9GHz from start to finish.I let the laptop cool down at least until the fan stops spinning before beginning the next test. All test results are the standard 10-minute test except for the last. I ran Cinebench on my Surface Laptop 4 a couple of times. They did not specify on which power mode it got those results from, for the benefit of the doubt we are going to assume it's Recommended, which is the setting the laptop will run on out of the box. Notebookcheck's test on the i7-1185G7 version reveals that it scored 5139 points on Cinebench r23.

I'm planning to buy a DELL M.2 2230 512GB SSD (a rebranded Toshiba BG4) later on. I did not test the GPU performance, from tests done by Notebookcheck it can be expected that the Intel Xe 96 GPU will perform significantly better than the Vega 6, but I have a desktop for playing games.

The i7 has better single-core performance, but I don't consider it to be worth the price difference. TL DR: From my tests running Cinebench r23, the AMD Ryzen 5 4680U 16GB RAM 256GB SSD version is at least on par with the i7-1185G7 16GB RAM 512GB SSD version, if not better, on multi-core performance while being hundreds of dollars cheaper, even after factoring in the costs of buying another SSD to upgrade it from 256GB to 512GB.

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