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It will crush a year old chip. (By a little.) Competition is great. Clickbait is not.

by catchnear4321 3y ago

sp332 3y ago
Oh and what's this year's fastest Apple Silicon chip?
- catchnear4321 3y ago
  It isn’t out yet. Does Apple upset you, yeah?
  - sp332 3y ago
    The M2 is a great chip. That's why I think a chip that can beat it would also be great. Since the M3 is not available, benchmarking against the M2 seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do. The M2 was a nice bump over the M1, and the M3 doesn't promise huge gains over the M2, so AMD's result here is still pretty exciting.
    - out_of_protocol 3y ago
      Actually M1 performance per watt is unbeatable, M2 has lower perfomance value per watt consumed. There almost zero chance AMD or Intel can release anything remotely close to M1
  - luuurker 3y ago
    They can't compare this processor to something that doesn't exist yet.
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jacooper 3y ago
> (By a little.) > and a whopping 72% better multiprocessing performance than the standard M2
- catchnear4321 3y ago
  Which is impressive, but doesn’t necessarily mean much for the average consumer. More than it used to.
- ericpauley 3y ago
  This just means it has more cores (edit: it’s using SMT and homogeneous cores for 16 logical cores). A more fair comparison would be against an M2 Pro. It has the same TDP as the pro.
kmos17 3y ago
Great to see some competition coming but yeah sounds very clickbaity, it’s comparing the base M2 to what will apparently be the top of the line new AMD chip, instead of comparing it to the M2 max for example. “ 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 There will be four new chips: the aforementioned Ryzen 7 7840U, the midrange Ryzen 5 7640U and 7540U, and the affordable Ryzen 3 7440U “ Also they’re not going to win on the marketing front with that naming strategy. Just awful. M1/2 and Pro/Max are so much simpler. It’s like Intel’s naming, such a mess.
- catchnear4321 3y ago
  Apple hasn’t been flawless with naming, but does seem less clumsy on average. Intel’s latest move is just absurd.
  - dragonwriter 3y ago
    > Apple hasn’t been flawless with naming, but does seem less clumsy on average. An extremely narrow range of SKU’s in a product line with an extremely short history makes that easier.
    - aloknnikhil 3y ago
      The range of SKUs is a problem AMD and Intel (particularly) brought upon themselves. It’s not easy for anyone trying to buy a laptop to truly estimate the power of the processor in there without first going through a review video. Id take the narrow range over that mess.
      - dragonwriter 3y ago
        > The range of SKUs is a problem AMD and Intel (particularly) brought upon themselves. Its a problem for simplicity of naming, its not a problem beyond that (and the alternative is a problem if you aren’t a vertically integrated producer supporting a fairly narrow end-user product line.)

It will crush a year old chip. (By a little.) Competition is great. Clickbait is not.

sp332 3y ago

Oh and what's this year's fastest Apple Silicon chip?

catchnear4321 3y ago
It isn’t out yet. Does Apple upset you, yeah?
- sp332 3y ago
  The M2 is a great chip. That's why I think a chip that can beat it would also be great. Since the M3 is not available, benchmarking against the M2 seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do. The M2 was a nice bump over the M1, and the M3 doesn't promise huge gains over the M2, so AMD's result here is still pretty exciting.
  - out_of_protocol 3y ago
    Actually M1 performance per watt is unbeatable, M2 has lower perfomance value per watt consumed. There almost zero chance AMD or Intel can release anything remotely close to M1
- luuurker 3y ago
  They can't compare this processor to something that doesn't exist yet.
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jacooper 3y ago

> (By a little.) > and a whopping 72% better multiprocessing performance than the standard M2

catchnear4321 3y ago
Which is impressive, but doesn’t necessarily mean much for the average consumer. More than it used to.
ericpauley 3y ago
This just means it has more cores (edit: it’s using SMT and homogeneous cores for 16 logical cores). A more fair comparison would be against an M2 Pro. It has the same TDP as the pro.

kmos17 3y ago

Great to see some competition coming but yeah sounds very clickbaity, it’s comparing the base M2 to what will apparently be the top of the line new AMD chip, instead of comparing it to the M2 max for example. “ 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 There will be four new chips: the aforementioned Ryzen 7 7840U, the midrange Ryzen 5 7640U and 7540U, and the affordable Ryzen 3 7440U “ Also they’re not going to win on the marketing front with that naming strategy. Just awful. M1/2 and Pro/Max are so much simpler. It’s like Intel’s naming, such a mess.

catchnear4321 3y ago
Apple hasn’t been flawless with naming, but does seem less clumsy on average. Intel’s latest move is just absurd.
- dragonwriter 3y ago
  > Apple hasn’t been flawless with naming, but does seem less clumsy on average. An extremely narrow range of SKU’s in a product line with an extremely short history makes that easier.
  - aloknnikhil 3y ago
    The range of SKUs is a problem AMD and Intel (particularly) brought upon themselves. It’s not easy for anyone trying to buy a laptop to truly estimate the power of the processor in there without first going through a review video. Id take the narrow range over that mess.
    - dragonwriter 3y ago
      > The range of SKUs is a problem AMD and Intel (particularly) brought upon themselves. Its a problem for simplicity of naming, its not a problem beyond that (and the alternative is a problem if you aren’t a vertically integrated producer supporting a fairly narrow end-user product line.)