The Power of Integrated Graphics: Putting the Intel 6800U to the Test

As I began testing the Intel 6800U, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and curiosity. With its integrated graphics, I had some concerns about how it would perform in demanding games and applications. However, after conducting thorough tests, I was pleased to find that this APUs can handle a variety of tasks with ease.

One of the first games I tested was The Witcher 3, which is notoriously demanding on even the most powerful graphics cards. I was surprised to find that it handled beautifully at 1080p low settings, with an average frame rate of 68 fps. This was a significant achievement, especially considering the integrated nature of the graphics.

I also tested Cyberpunk 2077, which has become a benchmark for game performance on APUs. However, in this case, I found that it fell under 60fps even at 1080p with FSR set to Performance mode. This was likely due to the CPU struggling to keep up with the demands of the game.

Moving on to God of War, another demanding game, I found that it struggled at 1080p original settings, with an average frame rate of only 34 fps. However, when I dropped the resolution down to 720p and kept the same settings, the frame rate increased by only a few frames, suggesting that the CPU was still the bottleneck.

GTA V, on the other hand, performed much better at 1080p high settings, with an average frame rate of 78 fps. This was a significant improvement over the Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, demonstrating the potential of this APU in handling more demanding games.

Halo Infinite, which is known for its demanding graphics requirements, also proved to be a challenge for the 6800U. However, with some tweaks to settings and a lower frame rate target, I was able to achieve a decent experience at 30fps.

Finally, I tested Elden Ring, which has become increasingly popular among gamers in recent months. While it did struggle at 1080p low settings, dropping the resolution down to 720p didn't make much of a difference. This suggested that the CPU was still the main bottleneck, and that increasing power to the APU could help improve performance.

The Intel 6800U: A Power-Hungry Chip?

One of the most interesting findings from my testing was just how much power this APU requires. With a maximum power draw of only 30W, it's clear that there are limits to what can be achieved with this chip. However, I believe that with some tweaks and adjustments, it is possible to unlock more performance out of this APU.

To achieve higher frame rates, I found that increasing the wattage available to the CPU was key. In my testing, I found that the integrated GPU alone could pull up to 30W all by itself, suggesting that there may be opportunities for further optimization and power scaling.

In conclusion, while the Intel 6800U is not without its challenges, it has proven itself to be a capable and powerful APU in many cases. With some tweaking and adjustments, I believe it is possible to unlock more performance out of this chip, even if it means pushing the limits of cooling systems. As I continue to test and explore the capabilities of this APU, I am excited to see what other possibilities lie ahead.

"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 the gaming performance of the all new or really the upcoming ryzen 6800 apu if you've been staying up to date with amd's new mobile apus with our dna 2 graphics you know this was announced a few months back along with the 6600u and since then we've really only seen the high-end variants like the hs and the 6900h but luckily i've got my hands on an upcoming laptop and i will have a full review coming up in about a week as soon as the embargo lifts so if you're interested in checking that out make sure you hit the subscribe button and turn notifications on but if you're not familiar with these new 6000 series mobile chips from amd we're going to go over the specs in a second right now i'm running forza horizon 5 on this unit here we're at 1080p medium settings with resolution scale set to quality the laptop i'm running this on right now will only allow me to go up to 30 watts and i suspect that a lot of manufacturers are going to be keeping it at 30 watts with these thinner lighter laptops this can put out more performance but right now we're kind of stuck it's a power struggle between the gpu and the cpu but before we move on with some more testing i do want to mention that this video is brought to you by urcd keys i've actually been using this site for a couple years now they do offer steam keys origin uplay they even offer microsoft applications like office but the main reason that i use urcd keys is for their windows keys right now their windows 10 pro oem key is 19.84 but if you use code eta at checkout you can get 25 percent off now there is one thing to keep in mind when upgrading your pc using a key like this you can change your gpu you can change the ram the hard drives the cpu the only thing that will stop this key from working in the future is swapping out the motherboard but they're definitely cheap enough and another great thing about buying from here is they do accept paypal i just did this build here i need to activate windows i'm going to head over to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see i've got windows 10 pro but it's not activated so i'm going to change product key i'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go my warning is totally gone and basically that's it they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap windows 10 keys for your new pc builds i'll leave a link in the description real quick when it comes to the cpu side of the 6800 u this is a 15 to 28 watt part that's what they're considering the thermal design for manufacturers now in performance mode with different manufacturers this can definitely be run at a higher wattage but cooling is definitely going to play a big part there on the unit we're testing today from the bios we can turn on performance mode and it will go up to 30 watts that's basically the max we can go here without using a third-party application to up the tdp it's got 8 cores 16 threads base clock 2.7 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.7 but i'd say the most exciting part about these new 6000 series apus are the integrated graphics these are based on rgna2 so we no longer have vega with these apus and the one in the 6800u and higher is known as the 6adm it's got 12 compute units and this one runs it up to 2200 megahertz but the really cool thing about all of this is these systems do support ddr5 and this one here has 16 gigabytes of ddr5 running at 5 000 megahertz i've got a bunch of games to test out here and up in the top left hand corner i do have afterburner running it'll give us all the information as you can see we're running at 30 watts our cpu package power so basically what this means is the apu kind of has to divide the power between the gpu side of things and the cpu side of things if i was able to throw more wattage at this we could get the maximum 2200 megahertz clock on that 680m the very top here in afterburner and we could have higher clocks on the cpu but even at 30 watts it does a pretty good job this is the original skyrim i always like to throw this in we're at 1080p ultra settings and it's running at 60. i haven't seen it dipped down so we really don't need much more power to run this game at least at 1080p so let's go ahead and move over to something else another kind of easier one to run on these apu's we have street fighter 5 and i test this a lot on the older 4000 and 5000 series apus usually we can do 1080p here with a few of the settings dropped down to low kind of a medium low mix but on the new 6800u at 30 watts we're at high settings 1080p and it's running great next up we've got the pc version of kinshin impact we're at 60 fps high setting preset i didn't change anything else here and we do get a few dips every once in a while i mean it's not even below 55 and i wouldn't notice it if i didn't have this frame counter on so going into this at 30 watts with the 6800 u i'd say it performs really well and a few of these settings drop down to medium would definitely help out taking it up to the witcher 3 and this little setup actually handled it pretty well we're at 1080p low settings and we got an average of 68 fps but going into this i thought we'd be in the mid 80s the way it all felt with all the other games that i've tested so far but either way you look at it we're still on integrated graphics and i'm not going to complain about this even at low settings i still think this game looks absolutely amazing at 1080p and we can definitely run it at full speed one thing i always suggest with these igpus or integrated graphics whatever you want to call them if you're over that 60 threshold turn v-sync on it's going to lock this game at 60 it's going to keep the usage down on the cpu and gpu and in turn it's going to burn less power and create less heat here we have cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p with fsr set to performance this is one of those games that i always like to test on these apus especially with the newer updates from cd projekt red they've done a great job with these new patches it's not bad but we are falling under 60. and even if i drop this down to 900p with fsr set to performance we're around the same frame rate so what really this is telling me is we're kind of cpu bound here because we can't get enough wattage to that cpu we're under 3 gigahertz here and it's really because we have to share that 30 watts between the gpu and cpu moving over to god of war 1080p original settings with fsr set to quality so i'm only getting an average of around 34 fps i thought it would be much better and trying to drop this down even the 720p from 1080p with the same settings it only ups the frame rate by about four or five frames again just like cyberpunk 2077 we can't get enough wattage to the cpu and gpu at the same time and this is really where that power struggle is going to come in with these thinner and lighter laptops with the 6800u i've always been really impressed with the performance of mk11 on these apus even with the 4000 series we're able to do this on the 4000 series 900p we can go to medium settings but here we're at 1080p medium and it's running really really well i had a good feeling that gta 5 would perform really well on the 6800u where at 1080p high settings we're getting an average of 78 fps and if we were able to take this wattage up more i guarantee we could hit around 90 fps on average with this with the same exact settings here's halo infinite 1080p low and in my experience on these ryzen apus with this game here so far this is a real cpu hog obviously the way everything's set up right now we're not gonna hit 60fps with it but this would be actually a pretty decent experience just locking it at 30 and playing it like this there are a few settings we could go up to medium width and still get a constant 30 out of this game and the final game we're going to be testing for this video is eldon ring at 1080p low by the end of this run i had an average of 47 fps according to afterburner the game still feels pretty good like this and just like a lot of the other newer games that i tested in this video taking the resolution down doesn't help much because we're only at 30 watts with this apu and i've been doing a lot of testing the last few days on this chip and what i've found is the igpu alone the 680m can pull up to 30 watts all by itself i've got a render test go in here and this is not shared with the cpu but there are ways to get more wattage to this apu so we can up the performance it really comes down to can the cooling system handle it and in the laptop i have a review embargo is lifted in about eight days i'll have a full review coming up it can handle it with a little more wattage thrown at it and it does make a pretty big difference so if you're interested in checking those videos out make sure you hit the subscribe button and turn notifications on but now that i have this chip in my possession i can do a lot more testing so if there's anything else you want to see running on the 6800u just let me know in the comments below but that's going to wrap it up for this one and like always thanks for watching youhey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at the gaming performance of the all new or really the upcoming ryzen 6800 apu if you've been staying up to date with amd's new mobile apus with our dna 2 graphics you know this was announced a few months back along with the 6600u and since then we've really only seen the high-end variants like the hs and the 6900h but luckily i've got my hands on an upcoming laptop and i will have a full review coming up in about a week as soon as the embargo lifts so if you're interested in checking that out make sure you hit the subscribe button and turn notifications on but if you're not familiar with these new 6000 series mobile chips from amd we're going to go over the specs in a second right now i'm running forza horizon 5 on this unit here we're at 1080p medium settings with resolution scale set to quality the laptop i'm running this on right now will only allow me to go up to 30 watts and i suspect that a lot of manufacturers are going to be keeping it at 30 watts with these thinner lighter laptops this can put out more performance but right now we're kind of stuck it's a power struggle between the gpu and the cpu but before we move on with some more testing i do want to mention that this video is brought to you by urcd keys i've actually been using this site for a couple years now they do offer steam keys origin uplay they even offer microsoft applications like office but the main reason that i use urcd keys is for their windows keys right now their windows 10 pro oem key is 19.84 but if you use code eta at checkout you can get 25 percent off now there is one thing to keep in mind when upgrading your pc using a key like this you can change your gpu you can change the ram the hard drives the cpu the only thing that will stop this key from working in the future is swapping out the motherboard but they're definitely cheap enough and another great thing about buying from here is they do accept paypal i just did this build here i need to activate windows i'm going to head over to my updates and security we're going to go to activation as you can see i've got windows 10 pro but it's not activated so i'm going to change product key i'm going to paste it in here choose next choose activate and windows is now activated we're ready to go my warning is totally gone and basically that's it they'll email your code once your payment is processed and that's basically it if you're interested in picking up cheap windows 10 keys for your new pc builds i'll leave a link in the description real quick when it comes to the cpu side of the 6800 u this is a 15 to 28 watt part that's what they're considering the thermal design for manufacturers now in performance mode with different manufacturers this can definitely be run at a higher wattage but cooling is definitely going to play a big part there on the unit we're testing today from the bios we can turn on performance mode and it will go up to 30 watts that's basically the max we can go here without using a third-party application to up the tdp it's got 8 cores 16 threads base clock 2.7 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.7 but i'd say the most exciting part about these new 6000 series apus are the integrated graphics these are based on rgna2 so we no longer have vega with these apus and the one in the 6800u and higher is known as the 6adm it's got 12 compute units and this one runs it up to 2200 megahertz but the really cool thing about all of this is these systems do support ddr5 and this one here has 16 gigabytes of ddr5 running at 5 000 megahertz i've got a bunch of games to test out here and up in the top left hand corner i do have afterburner running it'll give us all the information as you can see we're running at 30 watts our cpu package power so basically what this means is the apu kind of has to divide the power between the gpu side of things and the cpu side of things if i was able to throw more wattage at this we could get the maximum 2200 megahertz clock on that 680m the very top here in afterburner and we could have higher clocks on the cpu but even at 30 watts it does a pretty good job this is the original skyrim i always like to throw this in we're at 1080p ultra settings and it's running at 60. i haven't seen it dipped down so we really don't need much more power to run this game at least at 1080p so let's go ahead and move over to something else another kind of easier one to run on these apu's we have street fighter 5 and i test this a lot on the older 4000 and 5000 series apus usually we can do 1080p here with a few of the settings dropped down to low kind of a medium low mix but on the new 6800u at 30 watts we're at high settings 1080p and it's running great next up we've got the pc version of kinshin impact we're at 60 fps high setting preset i didn't change anything else here and we do get a few dips every once in a while i mean it's not even below 55 and i wouldn't notice it if i didn't have this frame counter on so going into this at 30 watts with the 6800 u i'd say it performs really well and a few of these settings drop down to medium would definitely help out taking it up to the witcher 3 and this little setup actually handled it pretty well we're at 1080p low settings and we got an average of 68 fps but going into this i thought we'd be in the mid 80s the way it all felt with all the other games that i've tested so far but either way you look at it we're still on integrated graphics and i'm not going to complain about this even at low settings i still think this game looks absolutely amazing at 1080p and we can definitely run it at full speed one thing i always suggest with these igpus or integrated graphics whatever you want to call them if you're over that 60 threshold turn v-sync on it's going to lock this game at 60 it's going to keep the usage down on the cpu and gpu and in turn it's going to burn less power and create less heat here we have cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p with fsr set to performance this is one of those games that i always like to test on these apus especially with the newer updates from cd projekt red they've done a great job with these new patches it's not bad but we are falling under 60. and even if i drop this down to 900p with fsr set to performance we're around the same frame rate so what really this is telling me is we're kind of cpu bound here because we can't get enough wattage to that cpu we're under 3 gigahertz here and it's really because we have to share that 30 watts between the gpu and cpu moving over to god of war 1080p original settings with fsr set to quality so i'm only getting an average of around 34 fps i thought it would be much better and trying to drop this down even the 720p from 1080p with the same settings it only ups the frame rate by about four or five frames again just like cyberpunk 2077 we can't get enough wattage to the cpu and gpu at the same time and this is really where that power struggle is going to come in with these thinner and lighter laptops with the 6800u i've always been really impressed with the performance of mk11 on these apus even with the 4000 series we're able to do this on the 4000 series 900p we can go to medium settings but here we're at 1080p medium and it's running really really well i had a good feeling that gta 5 would perform really well on the 6800u where at 1080p high settings we're getting an average of 78 fps and if we were able to take this wattage up more i guarantee we could hit around 90 fps on average with this with the same exact settings here's halo infinite 1080p low and in my experience on these ryzen apus with this game here so far this is a real cpu hog obviously the way everything's set up right now we're not gonna hit 60fps with it but this would be actually a pretty decent experience just locking it at 30 and playing it like this there are a few settings we could go up to medium width and still get a constant 30 out of this game and the final game we're going to be testing for this video is eldon ring at 1080p low by the end of this run i had an average of 47 fps according to afterburner the game still feels pretty good like this and just like a lot of the other newer games that i tested in this video taking the resolution down doesn't help much because we're only at 30 watts with this apu and i've been doing a lot of testing the last few days on this chip and what i've found is the igpu alone the 680m can pull up to 30 watts all by itself i've got a render test go in here and this is not shared with the cpu but there are ways to get more wattage to this apu so we can up the performance it really comes down to can the cooling system handle it and in the laptop i have a review embargo is lifted in about eight days i'll have a full review coming up it can handle it with a little more wattage thrown at it and it does make a pretty big difference so if you're interested in checking those videos out make sure you hit the subscribe button and turn notifications on but now that i have this chip in my possession i can do a lot more testing so if there's anything else you want to see running on the 6800u just let me know in the comments below but that's going to wrap it up for this one and like always thanks for watching you\n"