AMD claims its new laptop chips can outperform Apple’s, but it still needs to demonstrate this.

In 2024, Microsoft finally transformed Windows laptops into serious MacBook competitors, thanks to Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon chips, which adopted a homogeneous chip architecture, increased clock speeds, and matched Apple’s speedy and power-efficient processors. Now, AMD claims its new chips can also challenge the MacBook and keep AMD’s processors competitive.

Last week, AMD held a two-day event in Los Angeles to reveal detailed information about its new Strix Point Ryzen AI chips, built on its brand-new Zen 5 architecture. Zen 5 is a significant leap from AMD’s previous chip architecture, offering more instructions per clock cycle and higher gaming frame rates with just 15W of power.

At the event, AMD aggressively targeted the MacBook, claiming its new Ryzen chip “exceeds the performance of what MacBook Air offers in multitasking, image processing, 3D rendering, and gaming”; is “15 percent faster than the M3 Pro” in Cinebench; and can power up to four displays, unlike the MacBook Air, which is limited to two.

Moreover, AMD stated that its upcoming Ryzen AI chips are faster than Apple’s M3 and M3 Pro, and its new integrated graphics surpass Qualcomm’s current-gen and Intel’s last-gen. AMD pointedly remarked that its chips can power “triple-A games in full HD,” including titles that “don’t work on some of our competitors.” Additionally, AMD claimed its NPU performs 50 trillion floating point operations per second, more than any of its Microsoft Copilot Plus laptop competitors will offer this year.