ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 Review: The Perfect Budget Laptop

The ASUS VivoBook S14 M433 is an impressive budget laptop with solid build quality and great performance.

Abey Mascreen  •  August 31, 2020

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ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 Review: The Perfect Budget Laptop
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ASUS Vivobook S14 M433I

With high-end features found on more expensive models at a budget-friendly price, The ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 is an ideal and reasonable choice for students and professionals alike, who are looking for a personal, work or media laptop.

THE GOOD
  • Premium build quality
  • Powerful processor
  • Great battery life
  • Cool and quiet during load
  • Wi-Fi 6 support
  • Competitive pricing
THE BAD
  • IPS-level display
  • Not USB Thunderbolt

Performance

The M433 is powered by the AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with the AMD Radeon graphics chip. This mobile processor has a configuration of 8 Cores / 8 Threads, 12MB Cache and 4.1 GHz Max Boost and is built with 7nm fabrication processing technology.

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CPUZ – ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 Review

Combined with the integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 graphics, 8GB DDR4 2666MHz dual-channel RAM 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD, the M433 is powerful enough for light rendering, content creation & editing, and daily tasks.

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GPUZ – ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 Review

In Cinebench R20 tests, the VivoBook S14 M433 scored 468 in single core benchmark and 2,795 in multi-core benchmark, both are remarkable numbers.

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Cinebench – ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 Review

In PCMark 10 benchmark, the M433 recorded an impressive score of 4,772.

BENCHMARKSCORE
Cinebench R20 single core468
Cinebench R20 multi core2,795
PCMark 10 Benchmark4,772
3DMark Time Spy1,060
3DMark Fire Strike2,803
3DMark Sky Diver10,052

Our review unit came with a 512GB NVMe SSD. However, depending on the region, there may be different SSDs. The SSD offers impressive performance with read speeds of up to 3,550MB per second and write of up to 2,384MB.

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CrystalDiskMark – ASUS Vivobook S14 M433 Review

Although the Asus VivoBook S14 M433 comes with integrated graphics, the AMD Radeon RX Vega 7, this is not a gaming laptop. Keeping that in mind, the M433 offers good performance for playing casual games at Full HD resolution with low to medium settings depending on the game.

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