AMD has released a new low-power laptop chip with high-performing integrated graphics, and companies like Asus, Aokzoe, and Ayaneo are incorporating it into their handheld gaming PCs. However, the AMD 7840U was originally designed for thin and powerful laptops, and the company has just started to share that story. According to AMD, the new chip outperforms Apple’s 2022 MacBook Air’s M2 processor in both application performance and graphics by up to 75%. It even exceeds the Intel Core i7-1360P in productivity and graphics, as shown in the graphics below.
Matthew Hurwitz, AMD’s client PR manager, said that the chip offers up to a 24% “application performance” increase over the company’s 6850H chip, which is quite impressive. While AMD claims that it delivers “leadership efficiency for exceptional battery life,” it has not given any indication of what battery life we can expect. It’s worth noting that all of these benchmarks were performed on a reference board rather than a laptop, so it remains to be seen what kind of battery life the chip can deliver in a real-world setting.
Hurwitz promised that we can expect more information about battery life and gaming FPS in the future, but he did disclose that Framework (which recently announced its first AMD-powered laptop), Razer, Acer, HP, and Lenovo will be using these chips, among others.
The AMD 7840U is not the only new U-series part in the 15-30 watt lineup; there will also be Ryzen 9, Ryzen 7, and Ryzen 3 series parts with three different tiers of graphics: the 12-core Radeon 780M, eight-core Radeon 760M, and four-core Radeon 740M. Check out the graphics below for more information on the Radeon 700M’s block diagram and features.
