AMD has published an official statement condemning the actions of the Chinese manufacturer Chuwi. The accusation is serious: it was selling laptops with Ryzen 5 5500U chips, but the BIOS and advertising identified them as the latest Ryzen 5 7430U. AMD claims that this violates their agreements and damages user trust, reserving the right to take legal action.
Technical differences between the Ryzen 5 5500U and the 7430U ðŸ˜
Although both are 6-core, 12-thread APUs with Radeon graphics, there are key distinctions. The Ryzen 5 5500U is based on the Zen 2 architecture, while the 7430U uses Zen 3, which means an improvement in performance per cycle. Additionally, the 7430U integrates an RDNA 2 GPU, compared to the Vega of the 5500U. Labeling one as the other implies promising a generational leap that the hardware cannot deliver.
Chuwi and the art of software upgrade (or by label) 🤡
It seems that Chuwi discovered a revolutionary way to upgrade hardware: changing its name in the BIOS. Why invest in new chips when with a simple text change your laptop makes a generational leap? It's a shame that real performance doesn't update as easily. Maybe their next model will include a RTX 4090 mode through a tweak in the boot screen.