14 fps gaming surpasses MacBook Neo: AMD's marketing fires misleading shots at Apple

According to AMD, the Ryzen 5 240 can handle all 20 of the most popular PC games at 1080p resolution with low detail settings, while 15 of them wouldn't run at all on the MacBook Neo. The list of games AMD selected for this comparison includes many titles that simply do not offer a macOS version, though some would be playable with CrossOver.

Some of these titles are hardly playable with the AMD Radeon 760M  As our benchmarks show, Cyberpunk 2077 barely reaches 30 fps at minimum detail settings. To market Assassin’s Creed Shadows at just 17 frames per second or Starfield at 14 fps as playable could easily be called a misrepresentation.
 

It is true that the MacBook Neo offers neither a touchscreen nor a wide range of ports. When it comes to performance, however, AMD highlights a number of benchmarks that favor the Ryzen chip, because while AMD claims a 57 percent improvement in productivity performance, Geekbench 6.6, for example, shows that the MacBook Neo performs better in everyday tasks in both single- and multi-threaded benchmarks. Apple’s graphics chip is even over 50 percent faster in some benchmarks.

More ports, more form factor options, touchscreen options, and broader game compatibility – there are good reasons to choose an affordable Windows laptop over a MacBook Neo. However, the same applies the other way around, as our in-depth review of the MacBook Neo shows. As usual, such advertising campaigns should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism.