Subj : AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 - and i To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Wed May 03 2023 15:15:03 AMD promises its new laptop chips will crush the Apple M2 - and its got reciepts Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 14:02:46 +0000 Description: AMDs new Phoenix chips could change the gaming laptop landscape forever, with better performance and battery life. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Well folks, theyre finally here: after a spate of delays, AMD has unveiled its shiny new laptop processors, the Ryzen 7040U series. Designed to power a new wave of next-generation ultra-thin devices, these chips could take laptop performance to a whole new level - and AMD is clearly feeling confident about it. Why do I say this? Well, Team Red isnt messing about with its promotional material: weve got direct comparisons not just to Intels competing 13th-gen CPUs, but also Apples powerhouse M2 chip. AMD doesnt beat around the bush; the Ryzen 7 7840U, the initial flagship APU of the new series, apparently offers 9% better 3D rendering performance, 14% better responsiveness, and a whopping 72% better multiprocessing performance than the standard M2. Thats the one youll find in the latest MacBook Air - we can probably expect the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips found in this years MacBook Pro . Packing up to 8 Zen 4 cores and AMDs Radeon 780M integrated graphics as well as XDNA AI architecture, these new chips - previously codenamed Phoenix - are purpose-built for the best ultrabooks around. With that in mind, they use impressively tiny amounts of power; even the flagship 7840U uses just 15W of power at base, almost half that of the base TDP of the competing Intel Core i7-1360P. The RDNA 3 iGPUs are hugely improved here too, apparently crushing Intels Iris Xe integrated graphics, with performance as much as 139% better than the i7-1360Ps graphics. Thats at 1080p Low settings, but still impressive for a system without a dedicated GPU! There will be four new chips: the aforementioned Ryzen 7 7840U, the midrange Ryzen 5 7640U and 7540U, and the affordable Ryzen 3 7440U. No Ryzen 9 chip just yet - we don't know if that's not planned, or if AMD is holding it in reserve for a later release. The future of gaming laptops? Ive already noted that AMDs new chips could be a huge blow to Nvidia and the discrete graphics card market as a whole, and while the performance figures shown here dont exactly blow me away (showing percentage comparisons rather than real-world framerates is telling), its still impressive. AMD is really committing to its integrated graphics, and I couldnt be happier about that: Ive long believed that discrete graphics cards should be left in the past , and processors like this are a step in the right direction. After all, AMD already makes the chips that power our modern consoles, from the Nintendo Switch to the PS5 . More recently, Team Red has pushed its new Z1-series APUs , which will be powering the intriguing new PC gaming handheld from Asus - the ROG Ally . Low-power processors with impressive integrated graphics could prove to be the future of gaming laptops - if youve ever used a gaming laptop, youll probably know that most of them are big, bulky, heavy machines. Thats because they need to pack in a whole graphics card; and not just that, but a cooling solution and a large battery to support it. Cut out the dedicated GPU, and you end up with laptops like the gorgeous Dell XPS 13 : sleek, lightweight, and without the jet-engine fan whine of a beefy gaming rig. This is the future, folks! Im tired of lugging around my chunky old Razer Blade! I want something slim and light, dammit! Lets go, AMD! ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/amd-promises-its-new-laptop-chips-will-crush-th e-apple-m2-and-its-got-reciepts --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .