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- Even with the knowledge of how good the Zen 2 was on the desktop, I was shocked at how well AMD's Ryzen 4000 series mobile series performed. Asus' Zephyrus G14 shredded its Intel competitors in both performance and battery life, while also being considerably cheaper. Now it looks like HP hopes to recreate that success with the Envy x360. And, spoiler alert, they did. This thing sips power, yet it has six cores and is $800 for a configuration that we can actually recommend. What? You know? Like, what? Like, what's a segue? GlassWire lets you keep track of the weird stuff that's connecting to your PC, even when you aren't using it. You can see if a strange device joins your Wi-Fi, and block it instantly. Get 25% off by using code LINUS at the link below. (upbeat music) Our config of the HP Envy x360 sports a Ryzen 5 4500U, a 7-nanometer, 6-core, 6-thread processor that boosts up to 4 gigahertz. The last 6-core Ultrabook we looked at was the Dell XPS 13, a beast of a machine, except that it costs a casual 1,800 U.S. dollars, which is why we will not be comparing the Envy x360 to it. Instead, we'll be testing it against the HP Spectre x360 with an Intel Core i5-1035G4, a 4-core, 8-thread CPU on Intel's newish 10-nanometer node that you would hope would give the Ryzen 5 a run for its money, especially since it's in a machine that costs (clears throat) $250 more. But that maximum boost speed of 3.7 gigahertz isn't a good first sign. A much worse sign is the performance tests we ran. In multicore loads, the Ryzen 5 4500U is set to shred the i5 with a 45% higher score in Cinebench. Like, I knew it was gonna win, just not by that much. And remember, guys, this isn't even the top-spec 8-core model. Even more surprisingly, though, the 4500U managed to dominate the single-threaded test as well, thanks to that higher boost clock. Now, although I don't expect anyone to be doing much hardcore gaming on either of these machines, the Ryzen 5 4500U was also 20% faster in 3DMark Time Spy, and I'm never gonna complain about a bit more GPU muscle. Thermals, unfortunately, didn't redeem the Core i5 version either. It immediately shot up to 100 degrees and stayed there, managing clocks of only around 2.3 gigahertz, something we might have accepted if Intel was the only option in town because, I mean, in fairness, that is at least faster than the 1.5-gigahertz base clock. Thing is, Intel isn't the only option anymore, and our Ryzen 5 config avoided thermal throttling, albeit barely, at 91 degrees, while keeping all six of its cores at a whopping 3.3 gigahertz. Look how thin it is, guys! 3.3 gigahertz! It's worth noting that you'll have to enable performance mode to get these kind of speeds, but they're truly remarkable. Remember that Dell XPS 13 with a 6-core i7 that I mentioned at the start of this video? Yeah. In performance mode, this Ryzen machine is faster than that too. The thing is, performance matters a lot less than longevity in a thin-and-light than it does...