AMD Announces Ryzen 7040U CPUs for Ultra Thin & Light Laptops
May. 4, 2023The top-end processors in the series — the Ryzen 7 7840U and the Ryzen 5 7640U — also get support forRyzen AI, a dedicatedFPGA-based AI engine developed by Xilinxfor better performance in AI-related workloads. AMD claims it’s“the first dedicated artificial intelligence hardware in an x86 processor.”
Compared to the Intel Core i7-1360P, AMD’s Ryzen 7 7840U offers 29% better content creation performance, 37% better web performance, 39% better productivity performance, and 128% better media encoding performance.
Compared to the Apple M2, the Ryzen 7 7840U offers only a marginal increase in web browsing, image editing, and 3D rendering workloads. However, multi-core processing is significantly better on the AMD side.
The GPU gaming benchmarks also tell a similar story. The Radeon 780M iGPU outperforms the Iris Xe graphics on the Core i7-1360P at 1080p (low settings). However, we recommend taking these benchmarks with a grain of salt and waiting for independent reviews to see if the new chips live up to AMD’s claims.
The Ryzen 7 7840U and Ryzen 5 7540U from the lineup look similar to theRyzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen Z1 CPUsthat AMD announced a week ago. However, the new chips offer more GPU cores, which would result in better performance. However, the performance uplift may only be marginal.
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