They are 200% faster. Says so in the article.

Think when Apple finally moved to Intel and th speed increase. EVEN though Apple claimed they were the as fast if no faster before the switch.

AMD had horrible performance on laptops and they are finally able to say they doubled the speed AKA they had a horrible product before.

"For its own part, AMD claims that the new Ryzen chips will offer dramatically improved performance over its own last generation of laptop chips, with up to 200 percent more CPU performance (for multicore use) and up to 128 percent better GPU performance, although AMD’s last generation of chips weren’t exactly computational powerhouses to start." https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/10/26/16552208/...