XEON vs SURFACE BOOK! _ Editing test! _ Render Race!

**The Battle of the Laptops: A Test of Hardware Encoding**

In this article, we put two laptops through their paces to see which one would emerge victorious in a test of hardware encoding. The two contestants were my trusty Red Beast laptop and Microsoft's Surface Book. While I don't use either of these laptops for everyday tasks anymore, I decided to keep the Surface Book consistent with its new configuration, so we could compare the performance of both machines.

To begin the test, I exported a video that showcased various features on each laptop. The goal was simple: see which one would render first and emerge victorious. I started by exporting the video from my Red Beast laptop, and as it progressed, I placed the mouse cursor on the Surface Book's screen to simulate a user experience.

As we watched the rendering progress, the estimated time remaining was displayed on each laptop's screen. Initially, both laptops were neck and neck, with the Red Beast clocking in at around 3 minutes, while the Surface Book took about 4 minutes to complete the test. However, as time went on, it became clear that one of these laptops was going to leave the other behind.

The Red Beast laptop, which had started strong, began to gain ground on the Surface Book. The Surface Book, which had initially taken an early lead, started to struggle towards the end. It seemed that the laptop's form factor and lack of a robust cooling solution were contributing factors to its slowdown. Meanwhile, the Red Beast laptop continued to chug along, fueled by its powerful CPU and GPU.

As we approached the finish line, it became clear that the Red Beast laptop was going to emerge victorious. With less than 2 minutes remaining on both laptops, the Red Beast laptop crossed the finish line first, clocking in at an impressive 420 frames. The Surface Book, however, struggled to complete the test, leaving behind a significant margin of time.

**Hardware Encoding: A Game-Changer**

One of the standout features of this test was the significance of hardware encoding. As we watched, both laptops rendered video content, but only the Red Beast laptop seemed to be able to handle it with ease. The Surface Book struggled towards the end, leaving behind a noticeable gap in performance.

This highlights the importance of hardware encoding in modern computing. When you're working on demanding projects like video editing or 3D modeling, having a powerful GPU and CPU can make all the difference. In this test, the Red Beast laptop's powerful configuration gave it an edge over the Surface Book.

**The Importance of Cooling**

Another factor that came into play during this test was cooling. The Surface Book's compact design made it prone to overheating issues, which seemed to slow down its performance towards the end of the test. In contrast, the Red Beast laptop had a more spacious design and better cooling solution, allowing it to maintain its performance over time.

This brings up an interesting point: form factor vs. performance. While compact laptops like the Surface Book are convenient and portable, they often come at a cost in terms of performance and power consumption. In this test, we saw that having a more powerful configuration was key to success, even if it meant sacrificing some portability.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, this test highlighted the importance of hardware encoding in modern computing. The Red Beast laptop's powerful CPU and GPU gave it an edge over the Surface Book, which struggled to keep up with demanding tasks. While form factor is important for portability and convenience, performance should not be sacrificed for the sake of aesthetics.

As we move forward, we'll continue to test new laptops and explore their capabilities in various tests. In our next video, we'll be putting an i7-47th Gen HQ laptop through its paces against another Xeon laptop, so stay tuned for that exciting matchup!

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthrough the fight that absolutely nobody asked for we have the Microsoft Surface book versus six core Xeon in Adobe Premiere render tears everyone Chris's Coalition game here back with a bit of an interesting video I hope I hope you guys find it interesting anyways so back in April Adobe released an update to a premiere although we've brand lots of content creators use Adobe Premiere for their video editing and previously had been better optimized on Mac OS and now some of those optimizations have made their way into Windows and that being hardware encoding utilizing quick sync on Intel I GPU portions of the Intel main consumer 9c psi3 i-5 Zeiss Evans even Pentiums maybe even sell runs to some extent I believe now all those will support hardware encoding which greatly improves final render times in Adobe Premiere that's kind of a godsend you know and it is something that that uh probably people have wanted to work off of their Nvidia graphics card considering the mercury playback engine already supports acceleration within the timeline but straight insider premiere it doesn't really support accelerating the final render and that just goes back to the CPU for that step for systems like them and so I happen to have a Zeon six core p5 1650 v2 at 4.5 gigahertz across all six course that's basically an i7 49 30 K for those who are not familiar with the Xeon naming scheme so I don't have an IG PU on that and that's CPU none of the Zeon's really do only some of them do and most of those are part of the Macs so now oh well now the prospect of Intel bringing dedicated graphics cards is actually kind of a cool thing for rising users and Xeon users that don't have high GPUs because maybe they'll have a cheap one and maybe we can get that hardware encoding from an ad in video card that's kind of neat it's a neat neat thought but you know we're not going to know anything more on that for a couple more years so I decided to pit the six core Zeon versus the surface book you know the surface book that I have is a surface book from it's a work unit a guy use it at work and it's an i5 6300 you it's a I think only a go ups to goes up to three point four gigahertz turbo and that's probably not on all course it's just a dual core four thread CPU it's got eight gigs of RAM and that's really it you mean it runs off the eye GPU so we're gonna see how well that that Hardware encodes for the same video now I've use this video to do my render races before so there's gonna be results for a thread Ripper arising 2,700 X and as the on e5 1620 which is like a i7 2700 K and so you'll see that in the video captioned so anyways let's get to it I guess well actually let me get to the specs of the main rig my main rig is a xeon e5 1650 v to ivy bridge-e at 4.5 gigahertz with 32 gigs of ram and a g-force 980ti if you want to see more on that video to be linked right up here and then well let's get to it let's race these CPUs okay so here we go these settings are the same on both and the file size comes out both to 857 megabytes this is a 1920 by 1080 video at 29.97 FPS 18 megabit bitrate and i have the use maximum render quality box check but that's unnecessary it's just something I used to do an optical flow also also not something I do anymore but this is a video that I've been using so I decided to keep it consistent and keep using this one so here is a surface but I guess now it's time to hit it so I'm gonna hit export on this one actually okay I'm going to hit X I have the mouse placed on that one let me go ahead and place the mouse on this one okay so here we go and I'm going to hit export here and export here you hear the ticking estimated time remaining three minutes and 20 seconds and let's check on the surface book interesting interesting estimated time remaining three minutes five seconds so right now they're about the same there are about the same that's at three minutes and this is it almost four minutes this is getting interesting this is getting very interesting okay a little time has passed and at this point it's kind of clear who's gonna be the winner and it's gonna be the surface book so I'm standing here in front of my red beast and red beast is at two minutes and 32 seconds remaining and over here we have the surface book down here hanging out down there and surface book is at less than a minute remaining oh my goodness ooh this is interesting okay so we're getting towards the end of the test here and it started evening else things are getting a little interesting a little more interesting here is that I'm thinking is that maybe the CPU or the GPU IGP on here starting to throttle some because this is at 54 seconds it was at 48 and it's going up and red beast over here is now at 19 seconds and going down at 94% meanwhile surface book is now at 81% so it looks like now actually red piece is gonna win the I mean surface book got the holeshot but red beast is just about done what do we got red beast boom 420 so so red base clocked in at 420 for that video and surface book is still going so it's look like it look it's looking like it's choking at the end there oh it's gonna be about maybe two minutes behind and there we have it folks the Xeon wins that battle but to me to me that was a bi kind of an arrow margin surprisingly the surface book came out the gate flying and it had over a minute minute and a half lead time half about 80% through the test through the render until I don't know I guess I mean the form factor of the surface book prevents it from having that great of a cooling solution and I think that was its downfall but the Zeon just kept chugging along and next thing you know when the surface book got stuck at about 80 percent the xenon just kept going and flew right on through to 100 percent while the surface book started struggling and in the end xeon e5 1650 v26 core took the cake on this one but that just goes to show you how important hardware encoding is because it was a relatively close race and we're talking an i5 6300 you this is what maybe a 15 watt part maybe a 15 watt part versus an overclocked 130 watt part and according to harbour monitor the total power that mine my sea pupils that it's overclocked and it's at about 1.4 volt is about maybe 160 ish was so massive power use differential here and the surface book wasn't really all that far behind so hardware encoding something that really really should come along more hopefully adobe starts to catch up a little bit more with this because it would be awesome to enable this feature for the nvidia gpus straight inside of Adobe Premiere without having to use any tricks or go out to Adobe Media encoder do anything weird like that just switch it over to hard one coding and hit export would be neat obviously there are benefits here and so I have another laptop on the way I just bought one got an ebay deal for my wife but I made sure that it had a powerful enough CPU it's got an i7 47 10 HQ and we're gonna put that one to the test against the Xeon as well pretty soon so stay tuned for that this is Chris with coalition gaming if you guys like this video click that like button subscribe we always got more coming we have our weekly streams moving to Thursdays at 8 p.m. stay tuned on that and we'll see you guys in the next video also we have some merch available that'll be linked in the description below of merch store any purchases there support us you get some cool swag out of it that's awesome hit up our social media 1 on Twitter were on Instagram we're all over the place Facebook coalition gaming crew and on Twitch as well coalition gaming crew so well again we'll see you guys in the next videothrough the fight that absolutely nobody asked for we have the Microsoft Surface book versus six core Xeon in Adobe Premiere render tears everyone Chris's Coalition game here back with a bit of an interesting video I hope I hope you guys find it interesting anyways so back in April Adobe released an update to a premiere although we've brand lots of content creators use Adobe Premiere for their video editing and previously had been better optimized on Mac OS and now some of those optimizations have made their way into Windows and that being hardware encoding utilizing quick sync on Intel I GPU portions of the Intel main consumer 9c psi3 i-5 Zeiss Evans even Pentiums maybe even sell runs to some extent I believe now all those will support hardware encoding which greatly improves final render times in Adobe Premiere that's kind of a godsend you know and it is something that that uh probably people have wanted to work off of their Nvidia graphics card considering the mercury playback engine already supports acceleration within the timeline but straight insider premiere it doesn't really support accelerating the final render and that just goes back to the CPU for that step for systems like them and so I happen to have a Zeon six core p5 1650 v2 at 4.5 gigahertz across all six course that's basically an i7 49 30 K for those who are not familiar with the Xeon naming scheme so I don't have an IG PU on that and that's CPU none of the Zeon's really do only some of them do and most of those are part of the Macs so now oh well now the prospect of Intel bringing dedicated graphics cards is actually kind of a cool thing for rising users and Xeon users that don't have high GPUs because maybe they'll have a cheap one and maybe we can get that hardware encoding from an ad in video card that's kind of neat it's a neat neat thought but you know we're not going to know anything more on that for a couple more years so I decided to pit the six core Zeon versus the surface book you know the surface book that I have is a surface book from it's a work unit a guy use it at work and it's an i5 6300 you it's a I think only a go ups to goes up to three point four gigahertz turbo and that's probably not on all course it's just a dual core four thread CPU it's got eight gigs of RAM and that's really it you mean it runs off the eye GPU so we're gonna see how well that that Hardware encodes for the same video now I've use this video to do my render races before so there's gonna be results for a thread Ripper arising 2,700 X and as the on e5 1620 which is like a i7 2700 K and so you'll see that in the video captioned so anyways let's get to it I guess well actually let me get to the specs of the main rig my main rig is a xeon e5 1650 v to ivy bridge-e at 4.5 gigahertz with 32 gigs of ram and a g-force 980ti if you want to see more on that video to be linked right up here and then well let's get to it let's race these CPUs okay so here we go these settings are the same on both and the file size comes out both to 857 megabytes this is a 1920 by 1080 video at 29.97 FPS 18 megabit bitrate and i have the use maximum render quality box check but that's unnecessary it's just something I used to do an optical flow also also not something I do anymore but this is a video that I've been using so I decided to keep it consistent and keep using this one so here is a surface but I guess now it's time to hit it so I'm gonna hit export on this one actually okay I'm going to hit X I have the mouse placed on that one let me go ahead and place the mouse on this one okay so here we go and I'm going to hit export here and export here you hear the ticking estimated time remaining three minutes and 20 seconds and let's check on the surface book interesting interesting estimated time remaining three minutes five seconds so right now they're about the same there are about the same that's at three minutes and this is it almost four minutes this is getting interesting this is getting very interesting okay a little time has passed and at this point it's kind of clear who's gonna be the winner and it's gonna be the surface book so I'm standing here in front of my red beast and red beast is at two minutes and 32 seconds remaining and over here we have the surface book down here hanging out down there and surface book is at less than a minute remaining oh my goodness ooh this is interesting okay so we're getting towards the end of the test here and it started evening else things are getting a little interesting a little more interesting here is that I'm thinking is that maybe the CPU or the GPU IGP on here starting to throttle some because this is at 54 seconds it was at 48 and it's going up and red beast over here is now at 19 seconds and going down at 94% meanwhile surface book is now at 81% so it looks like now actually red piece is gonna win the I mean surface book got the holeshot but red beast is just about done what do we got red beast boom 420 so so red base clocked in at 420 for that video and surface book is still going so it's look like it look it's looking like it's choking at the end there oh it's gonna be about maybe two minutes behind and there we have it folks the Xeon wins that battle but to me to me that was a bi kind of an arrow margin surprisingly the surface book came out the gate flying and it had over a minute minute and a half lead time half about 80% through the test through the render until I don't know I guess I mean the form factor of the surface book prevents it from having that great of a cooling solution and I think that was its downfall but the Zeon just kept chugging along and next thing you know when the surface book got stuck at about 80 percent the xenon just kept going and flew right on through to 100 percent while the surface book started struggling and in the end xeon e5 1650 v26 core took the cake on this one but that just goes to show you how important hardware encoding is because it was a relatively close race and we're talking an i5 6300 you this is what maybe a 15 watt part maybe a 15 watt part versus an overclocked 130 watt part and according to harbour monitor the total power that mine my sea pupils that it's overclocked and it's at about 1.4 volt is about maybe 160 ish was so massive power use differential here and the surface book wasn't really all that far behind so hardware encoding something that really really should come along more hopefully adobe starts to catch up a little bit more with this because it would be awesome to enable this feature for the nvidia gpus straight inside of Adobe Premiere without having to use any tricks or go out to Adobe Media encoder do anything weird like that just switch it over to hard one coding and hit export would be neat obviously there are benefits here and so I have another laptop on the way I just bought one got an ebay deal for my wife but I made sure that it had a powerful enough CPU it's got an i7 47 10 HQ and we're gonna put that one to the test against the Xeon as well pretty soon so stay tuned for that this is Chris with coalition gaming if you guys like this video click that like button subscribe we always got more coming we have our weekly streams moving to Thursdays at 8 p.m. stay tuned on that and we'll see you guys in the next video also we have some merch available that'll be linked in the description below of merch store any purchases there support us you get some cool swag out of it that's awesome hit up our social media 1 on Twitter were on Instagram we're all over the place Facebook coalition gaming crew and on Twitch as well coalition gaming crew so well again we'll see you guys in the next video\n"