Eh its the CPU. It’s well known by now the 7945HX is a desktop class chip. It doesn’t have any mobile specific optimizations.

Am quite confident something like 7940HS combined with the same 7900M will have much better battery life.

Other RDNA3 based laptops that has 7040HS class CPU paired with them have class leading battery life.

Imagine 8GB 3D V-cache. That would be glorious.

You can actually play in 1440p with 6700xt though. You cannot with 4060. The better memory bandwidth and capacity coupled with better performance cannot be simply solved by upscaling. 4060 is so bandwidth starved that it immediately falls off in any resolution greater than 1080p.

Ray tracing and DLSS 2/3 most probably yes. They are behind in ray tracing simply because they use compute shaders for ray tracing. Only they get full blown ray tracing cores I think they will perform similar.

Same with DLSS 2/3. There is a precedent for this. XESS was able to get pretty close to DLSS within an year. All AMD has to do is use machine learning for upscaling.

The biggest issue for AMD is not these features. But the fact that NVIDIA keeps introducing new features. So everytime AMD could catch up with one Nvidia Would have probably introduced 2 more.

So APO is just Intel fixing the E-core issues. Whoa. I thought Intel stumbled onto something special when they mentioned per application optimization.

Wouldn’t 3nm be too costly? Steam deck is affordable because it’s on an older node.

RDNA 3 was not as efficient as expected. Sure higher performance but it also needed higher power. Maybe RDNA 4 or 5. Also important is the fact that Valve would try to avoid using any chip based on a new leading edge node. The fact that steam deck is on an older RDNA 2 architecture based on 7nm node is one of the reasons it’s so cheap.

That’s because you have to add the consoles lol. That’s like 95% of their GPU revenue and probably the only reason why their GPU business have survived to this day.

Sure. But in general you must have both the performance and efficiency advantage. If you only have efficiency advantage it leaves the door wide open for competitiors to match it pretty easily. The competitors are also a node behind and the only advantage going for you is efficiency. That’s not great.

I don’t think the geekebench single core score is all that impressive for Apple M3 Max. It’s just matched 13900k which is almost an year old. Sure it has the efficiency advantage but I don’t think that’s enough especially with Intel’s new meteor lake chips on the horizon.

AMD has the best chance to compete with multicore efficiency but their mobile processors only go upto 8 cores. The 16 cores 7945hx is basically a repurposed desktop chip. Again zen 5 is on the horizon and I don’t see apple’s number to be unbeatable considering the only advantage apple holds now is efficiency.

In other news : 7040U mobile series is still very rarely spotted in the wild.

There are very few 7040U models available and they are already moving to 8040U.

Yes. 1080p quality or 1440p balanced. You must try to keep most settings at low or medium. Don’t worry keeping settings at low because the settings at low are better than high settings for most other games.

Don’t think it will be priced the same though. The 4070 update is too good. I predict 699 or higher.