{"id":163300,"date":"2023-05-03T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/amd-says-its-new-ryzen7840u-chip-beats-the-m2-but-it-leaves-out-key-data"},"modified":"2023-05-03T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T00:22:18","slug":"amd-says-its-new-ryzen7840u-chip-beats-the-m2-but-it-leaves-out-key-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/amd-says-its-new-ryzen7840u-chip-beats-the-m2-but-it-leaves-out-key-data","title":{"rendered":"AMD says its new Ryzen7840U chip beats the M2\u2014but it leaves out key data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amd-says-its-new-ryzen7840u-chip-beats-the-m2-but-it-leaves-out-key-data.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/234860\/apple-silicon-m1-system-on-chip-macbook-air-macbook-pro-mac-mini-imac-m1x-specs-features-intel-apps-rosetta-2.html\">Apple\u2019s M1 chip<\/a> made its debut in November 2020, it not only shook up the Mac, it shook up the whole computer industry, outperforming chips from giants such as Intel (which Apple ditched) and AMD. Those companies have been doing their best to catch up and lo and behold, AMD now claims its latest laptop chip, the 7840U, is faster than Apple\u2019s M2.<\/p>\n<p>According to AMD, its new Ryzen 7 7840U shows improvement over the M2 that ranges from 5 percent in web browsing to 75 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=111346X1569486&url=https:\/\/www.passmark.com&xcust=1-1-1807205-1-0-0&sref=https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1807205\/amd-ryzen7840u-chip-m2-performance-battery-life.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Passmark 10<\/a> benchmark tool. (We wonder why it doesn\u2019t supply specific numbers or use a more common tool such as Geekbench or Cinebench.) Macworld\u2019s sister site, PCWorld, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/1806031\/amd-launches-ai-powered-ryzens-for-thin-notebooks.html\">states<\/a> that the 7840U is meant to be used in lower-power laptops, which is likely why AMD compares its chip to the M2 that is in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/807892\/m2-macbook-air-review.html\">MacBook Air<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/791082\/13-inch-macbook-pro-m2-review.html\">13-inch MacBook Pro<\/a>. Apple\u2019s M2 Pro and M2 Max in the 14-and 16-inch MacBook Pro are significantly faster than the M2\u2013and almost certainly faster than the 7840U\u2013but those laptops and chips require much more power.<\/p>\n<p>AMD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Apple\u2019s M1 chip made its debut in November 2020, it not only shook up the Mac, it shook up the whole computer industry, outperforming chips from giants such as Intel (which Apple ditched) and AMD. Those companies have been doing their best to catch up and lo and behold, AMD now claims its latest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}