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The Ryzen 9 7940HS has eight cores, 16 threads, and 5.2GHz boost speeds. Announcing the new chip, AMD CEO Lisa Su made bold claims about its performance, saying it's up to 30% faster than Apple's M1 Pro chip. In specific tasks, AMD claims the chip is 34% faster in multiprocessing workloads than the M1 Pro and 20% faster than the M2 in AI tasks. amd event m1 proamd event m1 pro One cornerstone of Apple silicon is energy efficiency, and in that area, AMD claims the new AMD Ryzen 7040 series will offer 30+ hours of video playback in ultrathin notebooks. Built directly into the series of chips is Ryzen AI, a dedicated AI engine embedded in the processor. AMD chips configured with Ryzen AI are 20% faster in AI tasks than Apple's M2 chip while being 50% more energy efficient, according to the company. To showcase the new chip's performance, AMD compared the performance of a high-end Intel chip, the M1 Pro, and its new Ryzen 9 7940HS processor rendering an object in the popular application Blender. In the time-lapsed video shown on stage, the M1 Pro lags behind the Ryzen 9 7940HS in rendering the object. amd event m1 pro 2amd event m1 pro 2 AMD says it made its performance claims against a MacBook Pro with M1 Pro, 32GB of unified memory, and 1TB of SSD storage running macOS Monterey. The M1 Pro is not Apple's highest-end and most powerful chip for laptops, which is the M1 Max, and AMD did not compare its chip to the M1 Max. It's worth noting that the M1 Pro is over one year old, while AMD's Ryzen 7040 series will start becoming available in commercial laptops in March 2023. In the coming months, rumors suggest Apple will announce its next generation of high-end chips, the M2 Pro and M2 Max, which will build on the performance of the M1 Pro and M1 Max for updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. Related Roundup: 14 & 16" MacBook Pro Tags: AMD, Apple Silicon Guide Buyer's Guide: 14" & 16" MacBook Pro (Don't Buy) Related Forum: MacBook Pro [ 158 comments ] Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox. [ ][ ][Subscribe] Top Rated Comments WiiDSmoker Avatar WiiDSmoker 13 hours ago at 01:52 am fans still going to be blowing 100% during idle You got proof or just spreading FUD? Get this nonsense out of here. But instead, no, y'all gotta attack, when this should be a great thing that drives competition and doesn't allow Apple to sit around and make idle improvements. Score: 84 Votes (Like | Disagree) bevel Avatar bevel 13 hours ago at 01:53 am This is great news. Hopefully a little competition will speed things up a bit. I want Apple to at least see someone when they look in the rear-view-mirror Score: 52 Votes (Like | Disagree) MayaUser Avatar MayaUser 13 hours ago at 01:53 am When absolutely everybody is comparing themselves with Apple....you know whos the trend maker Score: 30 Votes (Like | Disagree) Juicy Box Avatar Juicy Box 13 hours ago at 01:54 am If anything, it looks like Apple Silicon has really increased competition between the chipmakers. This is a great thing, something that was badly needed a decade ago. It's worth noting that the M1 Pro is over one year old, while AMD's Ryzen 7040 series will start becoming available in commercial laptops in March 2023. In the coming months, rumors suggest Apple will announce its next generation of high-end chips, the M2 Pro and M2 Max, which will build on the performance of the M1 Pro and M1 Max for updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models. If the M2 max comes out and outperforms AMD's Laptop chip, then I would consider that the competition has caught up to Apple sooner than we thought they would. If the new M2 max comes out and it lags behind AMD's laptop chip, that's pretty bad for Apple, in my opinion. Score: 29 Votes (Like | Disagree) seanmills1020 Avatar seanmills1020 13 hours ago at 02:00 am AMD knows full well that the Blender app is unoptimized for the Mac. Starting with version 3.1 I believe, Blender uses Metal for GPU rendering on Apple Silicon Macs, but it is still playing catch-up with the Windows version. 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