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The article highlights a great back-to-school deal on the 13-inch M2 MacBook Air, now available for $699 at Best Buy, offering significant upgrades over the M1 model, including faster performance, a better webcam, and a sleeker design, making it a strong choice for students and casual users. It also mentions other tech deals like a discounted Instax Mini camera, OnePlus earbuds, and a Google TV 4K Pro streaming device.
Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset is rumored to feature the new Adreno 830 GPU, which is speculated to be 10 percent faster than Apple's M2 GPU. An early 3DMark Wild Life Extreme result suggests that the Adreno 830 achieved a score of 7200 points, showcasing its performance advantage. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is also expected to deliver impressive CPU performance with its custom Oryon cores. However, these claims should be taken with caution as they are based on early engineering samples, and real-world performance may vary.
Initial performance figures of the Apple M2 in a MacBook Air running Asahi Linux have been compared to the AMD Zen 4 mobile processors. Linux support for Apple Silicon is a work in progress, with graphics driver support still being developed. The comparison was done with a MacBook Air/M2 with 8GB of memory against AMD devices with 16GB. However, there is currently no PowerCap/RAPL or HWMON driver for the Apple M2, so power consumption metrics are not available. These benchmarks provide a rough idea of the Apple M2's performance against the Ryzen Z1 Extreme and Ryzen 7 7840U on Linux.
Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake mobile chips may have an integrated GPU powerful enough to rival Nvidia's GTX 1650 and even compete against Apple's M2 chip. The iGPU on Meteor Lake chips is said to be impressive, with laptop makers potentially able to skip using an iGPU in entry-level gaming laptops. The Meteor Lake chip is expected to have 128 execution units (EUs) and its final performance may land somewhere between the GTX 1650 and the RTX 3050, making it among the best CPUs in laptops this year. Intel's Meteor Lake chips are expected to come out near the end of the year, but only in laptops.
AMD has officially announced its new low-power laptop chip, Ryzen 7840U, which is claimed to outperform Apple's M2 processor in application performance by up to 75%. The chip also takes on Intel Core i7-1360P in productivity and graphics. The company claims that the chip offers up to a 24% application performance increase over the 6850H chip. The Ryzen 7840U is part of the new 15- to 30-watt lineup of U-series parts, which includes Ryzen 9, Ryzen 7, and Ryzen 3 series parts with three different tiers of graphics.
The Exynos 2400's Geekbench Compute or OpenCL results have been revealed, showing that Samsung's upcoming SoC is performing close to the Apple M2, designed for portable Macs and powerful tablets. The Exynos 2400 reportedly obtained a score of 26,829 and a clock speed of 1,756MHz. The chipset is rumored to be 30% faster than the A16 Bionic and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in Geekbench 5's multi-core results. However, the results should be taken with a pinch of salt, as they may be from an Exynos development kit that outperforms the commercial version.
Apple is set to launch its first 15-inch MacBook Air with two processor options, the 8-core and 10-core GPU variants of the Apple M2. The MacBook Air 15 will resemble a larger version of the MacBook Air 13, with the same display resolution as the MacBook Pro 14. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple to ship between 5-6 million units of the MacBook Air 15 in 2023. The laptop is anticipated to arrive during Apple's keynote on June 5, with pricing yet to be announced.