[AmVess]

There's no way AMD is going to make up that much ground in such a short amount of time. You will end up being correct in that AMD will be faster in one or two cherry-picked benchmarks. I will add these benchmarks will have zero relevance to anything regarding actual CPU power, and AMD will be greatly lacking in real performance.

[zamalek]

> There's no way AMD is going to make up that much ground

What facts do you base this assertion on? Do you have insider access to the benchmark results? Maybe wait for the benchmark results before coming to Apple's rescue. Remember that it wasn't so long ago that AMD schooled Intel so hard that their CEO fell off.

[rowanG077]

Benchmarks of the 7840U are out. You can see for yourself it doesn't beat the M2.

[zamalek]

I can't seem to find them, all I can't find are references to AMDs promise. Could you provide your source?

[rowanG077]

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-amd_ryzen_7_7840u

[zamalek]

The AMD comes ahead in all benchmarks available on that site: https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-amd_ryzen_7_7840u-.... I'm not sure where it would fit in terms of perf-per-joule, but there seems to be a very limited amount of benchmarks available (e.g. there seems to be no benchmark for Blender for the AMD, which would be one of the more telling results). The jury is still out for this.

[goosedragons]

There's already Geekbench 5 scores of the 8 core 7840U up from devices like the Aokzoe A1 Pro with scores around 1900 in single core and 10K in multicore. The M2 scores mentioned above are for the 12 core M2 Max. The Aokzoe is a Steam Deck like handheld too so a larger chassis might allow for a little more out of the chip.