Our primary overall benchmark, UL’s PCMark 10, puts a system through its paces in productivity apps ranging from web browsing to word processing and spreadsheet work. Its Full System Drive subtest measures a PC’s storage throughput. (Because the HP EliteBook is a Qualcomm system, it is not compatible with these and so is not included in those charts below.)
Three more tests are CPU-centric or processor-intensive: Maxon’s Cinebench 2024 uses that company’s Cinema 4D engine to render a complex scene; Primate Labs’ Geekbench 6.3 Pro simulates popular apps ranging from PDF rendering and speech recognition to machine learning; and we see how long it takes the video transcoder HandBrake 1.8 to convert a 12-minute clip from 4K to 1080p resolution. (The ThinkPad P14s could not complete the Cinebench tests, so it is excluded from those charts below.)
Finally, workstation maker Puget Systems’ PugetBench for Creators rates a PC’s image-editing prowess with a variety of automated operations in Adobe Photoshop 25. (The EliteBook 6 G1q and ThinkPad P14s could not complete this test, so they are excluded from the chart below.)
The Tecra A40-M was the slowest laptop in this comparison group, by a fair margin. (However, it edged out Lenovo’s snappy ultraportable in storage performance.) From the synthetic benchmarks like PCMark 10 and Geekbench 6.3 Pro to the more real-world tests like HandBrake and Photoshop, the Tecra placed last in five of six tests. The most significant differences came whenever multiple cores spun up for various tasks, but the chip also placed last in the single-core subtests.
For typical productivity tasks, the Tecra A40-M would be plenty fast enough—its PCMark 10 score, well above our 4,000 baseline, says as much—and that’s likely fine for the laptop’s intended mainstream office workers. However, if you need to carry out demanding productivity workflows, you will be disappointed by this laptop, and the integrated graphics won’t speed up creative applications.
