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what's going on guys welcome back to the channel today's video is going to be super quick because I've got a lot of stuff to do this weekend I'm actually going to Vegas with Paul and a bunch of other friends so follow the pollen I on Twitter you might be posting some crazy pictures of us going wild you know like I don't know unboxing things in places we shouldn't where we're just reveled like that but anyway this is going to be a really quick to the point video essentially what we're doing today is a rendering showdown we're going to be encoding the same Adobe Premiere Pro cs6 project on two different systems the first one is the razor blade Pro which is from the folks over at razor and it features a core i7 6700 HQ which is a mobile processor it also has a GTX 1080 in it which is a fully fledged desktop varying GPU that's sandwiched into a very slim form factor you can go ahead and watch my review on the razor blade pro that I posted a few weeks back if you want more information on that book today we're going to be hitting that against a desktop equivalent as close as I could get it honestly once again I'm using the N case m1 that was featured in February's PC of the month however the internals had been swapped out a bit mainly the CPU cooler and graphics cards so for graphics card we actually have a full GTX 280 that's going to compete with the 1080 that's in the razor blade Pro and for the CPU we still have a 7700 K in there that we will not be overclocking I didn't have a 6700 K on hand that would have been a slightly more equal test between the two systems but I don't have it on hand that's actually available so we're going Katie Lake vs. skylake mobile versus desktop obviously that's the best matchup that I can do right now but we're not going to be overclocking the 7700 K and I've actually disabled turbo boots so it's only going to be hitting its out-of-the-box frequency of 4.2 gigahertz but I think the question we're trying to answer today is can the razor blade pro keep pace with a desktop version of itself and I say that loosely because again mobile CPU versus desktop CPU that's going to be a huge difference memory configurations are slightly different we've actually got double the RAM capacity on our laptop than we do on our Mini ITX system here so 32 gigs on the razorblade Pro 16 gigs on the Desktop however I've only allocated 8 gigs per system for the rendering tasks within Premiere Pro it's actually a setting you can adjust within the software so that'll be even across the board everything else will probably have very minimal impact on performance for this particular test but there you go those are the that's what we're dealing with here obviously everything is stock frequency on both systems both CPU and GPU you can't even overclock anything on the laptop for that matter so that's all nice and dandy drivers all the latest drivers are installed as well as Windows 10 64 bit on both systems so yeah on that notes let's just go ahead and kick it off with the rendering test with a 4k clip this is actually a 4k project this is one of my actual projects that I worked on recently that is about five minutes long sport Kay we're doing 45 megabits per second as our encoding bitrate and h.264 and all that jazz so now further ado here is the render test begin all right so a pretty crushing victory for our desktop here it actually rendered out the project in 12 minutes and 2 seconds compared to the laptop which was significantly slower at 18 minutes and 33 seconds to be exact that's 54 percent longer of an encoding time than our desktop so why did this happen Kyle where did things go wrong well nothing really went wrong I think my original speculation and all this before I started the test it's pretty correct and that the CPU differences here between IPC s and speeds is quite drastic when you're talking about a 6700 HQ which is a best mobile chip in its own right but compare that to a desktop variant core i7 that's clocked over 4 gigahertz there really is a huge difference in performance there especially in the tasks like rendering where you're not just taxing the GPU but the CPU is also being heavily heavily utilized now I would say that the performance gap overall between these systems would probably close quite a bit if we were to throw a gaming test in here at 4k for example because at that point even 2560 by 1440 your more GPU bound at that point so the CPU really isn't being taxed at all and it's not really a limiting factor for the razor blade Pro at that point because all the focus is GPU bound however when you're talking about rendering both the CPU and GPU at least in our case today are being taxed fairly evenly and much more evenly so than in a gaming 4k for example so we were really able to expose any sort of weaknesses or slow down with that mobile CPU in our render test today so another factor to consider here is that laptops are generally way more constrained thermally than desktops are so the manufacturers of these laptops like Razer or whoever else is assembling anything whether it's HP Dell whatever they kind of know this going into it especially like the gaming laptops in particular so they might not allow the hardware to ramp up or just go balls to the wall and deliver the utmost performance below because they want to keep things thermally controlled whereas a desktop that's sort of more in the users hands that the hardware is just allowed to go as as as fast as it can go as long as the thermal conditions are in place so that can have a lot to do with why we saw a bit of this collaborative performance today as well before I go I don't want people to watch this video and think well there's really no place for the razor blade Pro it's not nearly as fast as a somewhat equivalent desktop solution so why the hell would you even buy and to that I will say there is a fairer way to test this not that I have time to do today but hear me out I'll leave you with this thought if we were to test this again in a more fair overall all-encompassing manner I would want to see how long it would take to set up a full desktop including the the PC itself monitor keyboard mouse all the cables all that stuff I'd like to see how long how many seconds would that take and then how many seconds would it takes to tear down and pack it up nicely so that you were able to just walk out the door with everything in hand versus the time it takes to close a laptop and stick it in a backpack and zip it up so really I mean I think at the end of the day it's like where do you want your time to be saved in the rendering process during that period or in the travel process if you're going from A to B constantly it does not make much sense to opt for a desktop solution even though it might be 50 60 % faster than a laptop equivalent so I just want to bear that in mind for all of you and again that's pretty much all I have time to talk about today sorry if this video is super rushed it totally is but hopefully you still kind of enjoyed it a little bit if you did be sure to toss me a like on the video and subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming at you really soon which it certainly is as always I'm Kyle big let's thank y'all for tuning in and I'll see you guys