Ryzen 7 4800H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 4800H is the H-class workhorse of AMD's Renoir generation — an 8-core Zen 2 design from the 2020 Ryzen 4000 lineup that put real multi-core power into budget gaming laptops. The catalog matches it to 8 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 52 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Ryzen 7 4800H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 65.8 places the chip 114th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the upper fifth of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood mixes its own generation with newer mid-range parts: the Ryzen 9 4900HS (66.5), Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U (66.1) and Core Ultra 5 245HX (66) just above, the Ryzen 5 7530U (65.8) and Ryzen 5 5600H (65.8) alongside at the same score, and the Ryzen 5 5600U (65.7) just below. Landing within a point of its own Ryzen 9 sibling while tying the later Ryzen 5 5600H is the practical story — this was the value core of the Renoir-H stack.

What the chip brings

Renoir-H is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 2 design built on a 7 nm process and rated at 45 W in its H-class configuration: a 2.9 GHz base clock and up to 4.2 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon RX Vega 7 covers everyday display duty in these gaming chassis. In public benchmarks the chip posts 1,480 single-core and 6,078 multi-core in Geekbench. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 52 of 69 cataloged games — Forza Horizon 5, Battlefield 5, Alan Wake 2, Counter-Strike 2, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal and Metro Exodus among them, down to light titles like Civilization 6. Another 15 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy, League of Legends and Valorant all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and that is where the machines carrying this chip vary most.

Laptops that carry it

The 8-model roster is gaming hardware, top to bottom. The 2020 side pairs Dell's G5 5505 at $471 and G5 SE at $604 with HP's Pavilion Gaming 15 at $628 and OMEN 15 at $652; 2021 belongs to ASUS — the TUF Gaming A15 and A17 and the ROG Strix G15 and G17, all at $590. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: a gaming index of 65.5, performance 67.8 and a best-GPU score median of 71 make these genuine gaming machines, while mobility at 23 and portability at 26.5 say they are thick, heavy chassis built around the 45 W chip.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 4800H suits a buyer who wants used gaming-laptop muscle on a budget: every machine in the roster is a gaming chassis from $471 to $652, and the processor still clears recommended CPU settings for 52 of 69 tracked games. The trade-offs are age and bulk — 2020–2021 silicon in thick chassis — and the newest CPU-heavy titles sit at minimum or below. Judge each listing by its GPU and RAM first; the chip itself will rarely be the reason a game disappoints.