AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Apple M3 Max (16-core)

Editor's note

A thin-and-light chip against a workstation chip — the M3 Max nearly doubles the multi-core score (21,200 versus 11,700), as it should at its class and price. The honest framing: the 7840U lives in $900-1,400 laptops and handles development, office work and even light gaming (its Radeon 780M is the best iGPU of its generation); the M3 Max lives in $3,000+ machines for people who render, compile or edit for a living. Compare wallets first, cores second.