First things first, there’s an all-AMD system in here which means the Yoga AIO 7 is team red. The eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800H mobile processor along with the AMD Radeon RX 6600M (8GB) is quite the contender for editing FullHD and 4K videos and also running InDesign and Photoshop for our monthly magazine work. We threw 100MB InDesign book function files of our cover stories over the months, and the 16GB DDR4 RAM handled the workload with ease and the processor didn’t even break a sweat.
For single-core performance, there’s a bit of a delay to get the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H churning out its due diligence but when it comes to multi-core performance the processor shifts into high gear and handles editing with ease. You can’t scrub through multiple 4K videos simultaneously, but for what it’s worth, some basic 4K and even FullHD editing is handled best on this machine. Dare I say, better than the M1.
It’s also very capable for gaming. The AMD Radeon RX 6600M can handle Age of Empires IV on 4K resolution with a good and playable frame rate. We tried some Apex Legends and got around 20 to 30FPS on 4K resolution at high settings. Turning down to 2K resolution brings the frame rate to 60FPS and turning down the graphics settings to low will reap you around 144FPS on 2K resolution. It’s not a gaming monitor, and you’ll find that out the hard way. That said, pretty looking games like The Ascent run at 50FPS at 2K resolution with Ray Tracing turned off. The monitor plastered onto the rotating hinge is only capable of 60Hz so you best play games that don’t require extra fast frame rates.
Games like God of War (2018) that support AMD FSR see a significant boost to performance. We played it at Ultra graphics settings on 4K and got around 30FPS but it quickly heats up and thermal throttles. The best way is to push the resolution down to 2K and set the game to high graphics settings with FSR set to Quality, the game was running at a stable 60 frames per second which is very impressive for an AIO desktop.