**Original Skyrim 1080p High Settings**

We're starting off with one of my favorite games, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Even though it's an older game, it still holds up remarkably well today. We're running it at 1080p high settings, and we've already seen some impressive performance. At this level, we're looking at around 60 frames per second, which is perfectly smooth for a fantasy RPG like Skyrim.

As you can see, the game looks great in high definition, with crisp graphics and detailed textures. The gameplay is just as enjoyable, with a vast open world to explore and a rich storyline to follow. Overall, playing Skyrim on this laptop's integrated graphics is a great experience, even at high settings.

**CS:GO 1080p Medium Settings**

Next up, we have Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO), one of the most popular multiplayer games in the world. We're running it at 1080p medium settings, and while I was expecting to see a bit more performance out of this game, we're still getting an average of around 73 frames per second. That's not bad, considering we're running at a slightly lower resolution than some of my other tests.

If you want to play CS:GO at higher resolutions or frame rates, you may need to drop the settings down to 900p or lower. This laptop is capable of handling 900p, but it will limit your performance. If you're looking for smooth gameplay at high settings, you may want to consider a different laptop with a more powerful graphics card.

**Street Fighter 5 900p Medium Settings**

Moving on to Street Fighter V, another popular fighting game that's known for its challenging gameplay and stunning visuals. We're running it at 900p medium settings, and while I was hoping to see better performance out of this game, we're still limited by the integrated graphics.

Unfortunately, we're not seeing a frame rate over 60 in Street Fighter V, even with these relatively low settings. This is likely due to the game's demanding graphics requirements and the limitations of the laptop's integrated GPU. However, I do expect to see better performance at lower resolutions or with more lenient graphics settings.

**GTA V 900p Normal Settings**

Next up, we have Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V), another popular open-world game that's known for its stunning visuals and engaging gameplay. We're running it at 900p normal settings, and while I was hoping to see better performance out of this game, we're still struggling to get a constant frame rate above 60.

Even with these relatively low settings, the laptop is able to handle the game's graphics requirements, but the frame rate is inconsistent. This may be due to the game's demanding GPU requirements or limitations in the integrated GPU.

**Forza Horizon 4 900p Low Settings**

Moving on to Forza Horizon 4, an open-world racing game that's known for its stunning visuals and engaging gameplay. We're running it at 900p low settings, and while I was hoping to see better performance out of this game, we're still struggling to get a frame rate above 60.

As you can see, the game is looking great in high definition, but the frame rate is limited by the integrated graphics. If you want to play Forza Horizon 4 at higher resolutions or frame rates, you may need to drop the settings down to 720p or lower.

**Emulation on the Ryzen 5 5500U**

Now that we've seen some gaming performance on this laptop, let's talk about emulation. I'm running a few different emulators to see how they perform on this laptop.

First up, we have Wii U using Simu Vulcan with async shaders. As you can expect, the frame rate is relatively low at around 30 frames per second. However, it's still possible to run games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey smoothly in emulation.

Next, I'm running Dolphin, a popular emulator for GameCube and Wii games. The performance is similar to what we saw with Simu Vulcan, but I was able to get some games running at higher frame rates. For example, I was able to run Super Smash Bros. Brawl with a smooth 60 frames per second.

Finally, I'm trying out RP CS3 and Vulkan on the PS3 using Tekken 6. The performance is quite good, with a smooth 30 frames per second in most areas of the game. However, there were some instances where the frame rate dropped to around 20-25 frames per second, possibly due to emulation issues.

Overall, I'm impressed by the emulation performance on this laptop, especially considering its relatively low price point. The Ryzen 5 5500U may not be the best gaming laptop out there, but it's definitely a great option for those looking to get into emulation or other uses like video editing and photo editing.

**Ryzen 5 5500U Performance Summary**

In summary, this laptop's integrated graphics are capable of handling some demanding games and emulators at relatively high settings. However, the performance is often limited by the integrated GPU's power consumption and limitations in terms of frame rates above 60.

If you're looking for a gaming laptop with more powerful graphics, you may want to consider other options. However, if you're looking for a laptop that can handle emulation or other uses like video editing and photo editing, this Ryzen 5 5500U is definitely worth considering.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, this laptop's integrated graphics are capable of handling some demanding games and emulators at relatively high settings. While the performance may not be as smooth as I would like, it's still possible to have a great gaming experience on this laptop.

If you're looking for a budget-friendly option with decent performance, this laptop is definitely worth considering. However, if you're looking for a more powerful graphics card or smoother frame rates above 60, you may want to consider other options.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a 450 lenovo laptop powered by the all new ryzen 5 5500u know i've been trying to get my hands on a 5500 u-powered laptop for a little while but they've been a bit expensive up to 700 to 800 and i was looking for the cheapest one and i think i finally found it at least as i'm making this video this was recently on sale over at walmart.com for 449 but since it's been shipped and i got it in the mail it's actually jumped up to 479 but it might go back on sale so definitely keep an eye on it taking a look at the keyboard here as you can see we do have a number pad this also has a fingerprint reader built in it's not a top of the line laptop given the price we're at 450 to 470 dollars for this but overall i think it's a decent budget setup and i'm really excited to test out this new ryzen 5 5500u apu and by the way this is actually something i'm just noticing right now as making this video it is a backlit keyboard when it comes to i o over here on the right hand side we have one usb 3.1 port and a full size sd card slot moving over to the right hand side we have our power input full size hdmi another usb 3.1 port usb type-c and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as for the specs for that cpu we have the all new amd ryzen 5 5500u 6 cores 12 threads with a base clock of 2.1 gigahertz and a boost up to 4.0 built-in radeon 7 graphics at 1800 megahertz 8 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz there's four gigs soldered to the board and there's also a four gig stick so if you wanted to upgrade the ram and this it is totally possible but you can only go up to a maximum of 20 gigabytes a user upgradable 256 gigabyte nvme m.2 ssd and a 15.6 inch 1080p lcd display and real quick i just pulled the bottom off so you can take a look here as you can see we do have this user replaceable m.2 and right under here we have a single stick of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz this is a 4 gig stick the maximum you can put in here is 16 but remember we have four gigabytes soldered to the board so maximum on this pc here would be 20 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and before we get into testing i wanted to give you a quick look at the bios now there's not much that we can mess around with in here but there are two very important settings first one system performance near the very bottom here it's set to intelligent cooling and this is going to keep that cpu around 13 to 15 watts we also have extreme performance and battery saver i'm going with extreme performance this will actually take the tdp up on that cpu to 30 watts next one our vram allocation for the built-in radeon gpu we can go up to two gigs and these are the only things i change in this bios okay so here we are this is running windows 10 home right out of the box and one of the main reasons i went into the bios and turned it to performance mode was cpu wattage when it's in intelligent cooling it goes to about 14 watts and that's going to limit the performance that this little laptop can put out but on performance mode this will actually go up to around 30 watts dips around 31 32 and i'll show you that right now so right here i have hardware info running my wattage at idle is 2.7 watts let's just run prime95 real quick this will stress out all six scores and 12 threads and you'll see it jump up to 30 watts here 31 32 but yeah now we can get the maximum performance out of this thing without using any third party application so lenovo i think did a pretty decent job when it comes to that performance mode the next thing i always like to do with these apus is make sure that this gpu is going to run at its maximum performance and in performance mode it does and it'll stay there so from cpu z we'll go to graphics our core clock on that radeon 7 gpu is 400 megahertz right now but if i put a load on it it'll jump up to 1800 and it will stay there so if you do pick one of these laptops up and you want to get the maximum performance out of it make sure you go into the bios now this will dramatically decrease the battery life but in my opinion it will be worth it when it comes to gaming and when it comes down to it the 5500 you definitely has enough power to get you through what you're going to do every single day even if you want to do some light 1080p video editing this is going to handle it just fine but a lot of people just do web browsing so let's go ahead and check that out we do have wi-fi 6 built into this machine here and as you can see it loads up everything really quickly just went over to lenovo's website another thing i like to test here is webgl performance so we'll head over to these tests up here we have the fps 500 fish we're at 60 1000 5000 10 000 15 000 and when we go to 20 000 it drops down to around 55 but uh yeah that's looking really good for a mobile chip next thing i did was run some benchmarks on this laptop first up we have geekbench 5 with a single core of 1121 and a multi of 46.94 moving over to cinebench r23 total multi-core score of 7126 i also tested out some gpu benchmarks using 3dmart knight raid came in with a 13061 fire strike 3072 and finally for the gpu side of things we have time spy with a 1205 and the very last thing i ran was pc mark 10 with a total score of 4988 so yeah i mean for a mobile chip this is actually looking really good now it's time to see if this laptop can game and first up we have ginger impact 1080p medium-low settings we're getting 60. i have seen it dip down every once in a while even with these settings but it's few and far in between it's really when there's lots of particles on screen but overall it handles this game really well when it comes to fortnite on these apus i prefer using the performance mode but we're still at 1080p and we do have textures set to high this is performing really well next on the list one of my favorites original skyrim 1080p high settings and you know this is an older game but it's still a great game to play we're at 60 high settings we're good to go with this one next on the list csgo 1080p medium settings and i was actually expecting a lot more out of this game we got an average of 73 fps and i was actually expecting in the 90s at least given that we're at medium settings 1080p if you want to go a bit higher you can drop that down to 900p and with a laptop like this your best bet is to drop a lot of these games down to 900p if you want to play at or over 60. next on the list street fighter 5 900p medium settings now i was really hoping we could get 1080 out of it because with the new 5600 and the 5700 g for desktops we can but with this one here we're still a bit limited and we have to drop that resolution down now when it comes to the mobile ryzen 5 chips i've never really had good luck with gta 5 this is at 900p normal settings and we still can't get a constant 60 out of it i actually came out with an average of 54. and if we take a look at that wattage on the cpu it jumps up to around 37 every once in a while and at that wattage the fan on this little laptop does kick up but it's really not that loud and as you can see we're hitting around 73 degrees celsius here we have forward to horizon for 900p low settings and by the end i got an average of 56. was really hoping that we could get a constant 60 out of this there is one more step down which is lowest but it takes away basically everything that looks good in this game now it's time to move over to a little bit of emulation i just went with the higher end stuff here we have wii u using simu vulcan back in async shaders and we can run this at 30. 60 is pretty much out of the question i was getting around 43 fps when i had that unlocked but uh at 30 you can run this all day and if you wanted to go with something like the dolphin emulator for gamecube and wii this laptop's gonna handle it just fine along with n64 and sega saturn and finally for emulation here we have ps3 using rp cs3 and that vulcan back in tekken 6 which is actually an easier one to emulate when it comes to this emulator we're running this just fine we got those six cores and 12 threads pumping out with this one now this doesn't mean that every ps3 game is going to run at full speed because when we move over to a harder one to run like skate 3 it really does kind of fall on its face and with this one i'm getting some weird stuff going on i've tried to mess around with the settings sometimes it feels like it locks at 30 and then unlocks itself but in the settings we're set at 60fps and it's really really struggling to get there so in the end it's definitely not a bad laptop for 450 dollars it's not great at gaming but you could get by at lower settings emulation will be absolutely amazing on this thing and it'll basically handle anything you want to do in your everyday life like i mentioned video editing photo editing you want to do some web browsing some 4k video playback do your homework here even use this as a work laptop it's going to be just fine for you we do have enough power with that 5500u personally i was hoping to see a little better gpu performance out of this thing but still we're stuck with integrated graphics and given that the 5500u is actually based on zen 2 instead of zen3 when it comes down to it the way i see it this is basically a rebranded 4600u but we do have a lot of advantages over the old 4500u we have those extra six threads the 4500u only had those six cores and the built-in gpu is running at 1800 megahertz over the 1500 in the 4500u so i mean if you had to choose between the two i would definitely go with the new 5500 but that's gonna wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching if you're interested in picking something like this up i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the 5500u just let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at a 450 lenovo laptop powered by the all new ryzen 5 5500u know i've been trying to get my hands on a 5500 u-powered laptop for a little while but they've been a bit expensive up to 700 to 800 and i was looking for the cheapest one and i think i finally found it at least as i'm making this video this was recently on sale over at walmart.com for 449 but since it's been shipped and i got it in the mail it's actually jumped up to 479 but it might go back on sale so definitely keep an eye on it taking a look at the keyboard here as you can see we do have a number pad this also has a fingerprint reader built in it's not a top of the line laptop given the price we're at 450 to 470 dollars for this but overall i think it's a decent budget setup and i'm really excited to test out this new ryzen 5 5500u apu and by the way this is actually something i'm just noticing right now as making this video it is a backlit keyboard when it comes to i o over here on the right hand side we have one usb 3.1 port and a full size sd card slot moving over to the right hand side we have our power input full size hdmi another usb 3.1 port usb type-c and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack as for the specs for that cpu we have the all new amd ryzen 5 5500u 6 cores 12 threads with a base clock of 2.1 gigahertz and a boost up to 4.0 built-in radeon 7 graphics at 1800 megahertz 8 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz there's four gigs soldered to the board and there's also a four gig stick so if you wanted to upgrade the ram and this it is totally possible but you can only go up to a maximum of 20 gigabytes a user upgradable 256 gigabyte nvme m.2 ssd and a 15.6 inch 1080p lcd display and real quick i just pulled the bottom off so you can take a look here as you can see we do have this user replaceable m.2 and right under here we have a single stick of ddr4 running at 3 200 megahertz this is a 4 gig stick the maximum you can put in here is 16 but remember we have four gigabytes soldered to the board so maximum on this pc here would be 20 gigabytes of ddr4 running at 3200 megahertz and before we get into testing i wanted to give you a quick look at the bios now there's not much that we can mess around with in here but there are two very important settings first one system performance near the very bottom here it's set to intelligent cooling and this is going to keep that cpu around 13 to 15 watts we also have extreme performance and battery saver i'm going with extreme performance this will actually take the tdp up on that cpu to 30 watts next one our vram allocation for the built-in radeon gpu we can go up to two gigs and these are the only things i change in this bios okay so here we are this is running windows 10 home right out of the box and one of the main reasons i went into the bios and turned it to performance mode was cpu wattage when it's in intelligent cooling it goes to about 14 watts and that's going to limit the performance that this little laptop can put out but on performance mode this will actually go up to around 30 watts dips around 31 32 and i'll show you that right now so right here i have hardware info running my wattage at idle is 2.7 watts let's just run prime95 real quick this will stress out all six scores and 12 threads and you'll see it jump up to 30 watts here 31 32 but yeah now we can get the maximum performance out of this thing without using any third party application so lenovo i think did a pretty decent job when it comes to that performance mode the next thing i always like to do with these apus is make sure that this gpu is going to run at its maximum performance and in performance mode it does and it'll stay there so from cpu z we'll go to graphics our core clock on that radeon 7 gpu is 400 megahertz right now but if i put a load on it it'll jump up to 1800 and it will stay there so if you do pick one of these laptops up and you want to get the maximum performance out of it make sure you go into the bios now this will dramatically decrease the battery life but in my opinion it will be worth it when it comes to gaming and when it comes down to it the 5500 you definitely has enough power to get you through what you're going to do every single day even if you want to do some light 1080p video editing this is going to handle it just fine but a lot of people just do web browsing so let's go ahead and check that out we do have wi-fi 6 built into this machine here and as you can see it loads up everything really quickly just went over to lenovo's website another thing i like to test here is webgl performance so we'll head over to these tests up here we have the fps 500 fish we're at 60 1000 5000 10 000 15 000 and when we go to 20 000 it drops down to around 55 but uh yeah that's looking really good for a mobile chip next thing i did was run some benchmarks on this laptop first up we have geekbench 5 with a single core of 1121 and a multi of 46.94 moving over to cinebench r23 total multi-core score of 7126 i also tested out some gpu benchmarks using 3dmart knight raid came in with a 13061 fire strike 3072 and finally for the gpu side of things we have time spy with a 1205 and the very last thing i ran was pc mark 10 with a total score of 4988 so yeah i mean for a mobile chip this is actually looking really good now it's time to see if this laptop can game and first up we have ginger impact 1080p medium-low settings we're getting 60. i have seen it dip down every once in a while even with these settings but it's few and far in between it's really when there's lots of particles on screen but overall it handles this game really well when it comes to fortnite on these apus i prefer using the performance mode but we're still at 1080p and we do have textures set to high this is performing really well next on the list one of my favorites original skyrim 1080p high settings and you know this is an older game but it's still a great game to play we're at 60 high settings we're good to go with this one next on the list csgo 1080p medium settings and i was actually expecting a lot more out of this game we got an average of 73 fps and i was actually expecting in the 90s at least given that we're at medium settings 1080p if you want to go a bit higher you can drop that down to 900p and with a laptop like this your best bet is to drop a lot of these games down to 900p if you want to play at or over 60. next on the list street fighter 5 900p medium settings now i was really hoping we could get 1080 out of it because with the new 5600 and the 5700 g for desktops we can but with this one here we're still a bit limited and we have to drop that resolution down now when it comes to the mobile ryzen 5 chips i've never really had good luck with gta 5 this is at 900p normal settings and we still can't get a constant 60 out of it i actually came out with an average of 54. and if we take a look at that wattage on the cpu it jumps up to around 37 every once in a while and at that wattage the fan on this little laptop does kick up but it's really not that loud and as you can see we're hitting around 73 degrees celsius here we have forward to horizon for 900p low settings and by the end i got an average of 56. was really hoping that we could get a constant 60 out of this there is one more step down which is lowest but it takes away basically everything that looks good in this game now it's time to move over to a little bit of emulation i just went with the higher end stuff here we have wii u using simu vulcan back in async shaders and we can run this at 30. 60 is pretty much out of the question i was getting around 43 fps when i had that unlocked but uh at 30 you can run this all day and if you wanted to go with something like the dolphin emulator for gamecube and wii this laptop's gonna handle it just fine along with n64 and sega saturn and finally for emulation here we have ps3 using rp cs3 and that vulcan back in tekken 6 which is actually an easier one to emulate when it comes to this emulator we're running this just fine we got those six cores and 12 threads pumping out with this one now this doesn't mean that every ps3 game is going to run at full speed because when we move over to a harder one to run like skate 3 it really does kind of fall on its face and with this one i'm getting some weird stuff going on i've tried to mess around with the settings sometimes it feels like it locks at 30 and then unlocks itself but in the settings we're set at 60fps and it's really really struggling to get there so in the end it's definitely not a bad laptop for 450 dollars it's not great at gaming but you could get by at lower settings emulation will be absolutely amazing on this thing and it'll basically handle anything you want to do in your everyday life like i mentioned video editing photo editing you want to do some web browsing some 4k video playback do your homework here even use this as a work laptop it's going to be just fine for you we do have enough power with that 5500u personally i was hoping to see a little better gpu performance out of this thing but still we're stuck with integrated graphics and given that the 5500u is actually based on zen 2 instead of zen3 when it comes down to it the way i see it this is basically a rebranded 4600u but we do have a lot of advantages over the old 4500u we have those extra six threads the 4500u only had those six cores and the built-in gpu is running at 1800 megahertz over the 1500 in the 4500u so i mean if you had to choose between the two i would definitely go with the new 5500 but that's gonna wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching if you're interested in picking something like this up i will leave a few links in the description and if there's anything else you want to see running on the 5500u just let me know in the comments below but that's it for this one and like always thanks for watching\n"