Eh its the CPU. It’s well known by now the 7945HX is a desktop class chip. It doesn’t have any mobile specific optimizations.

Am quite confident something like 7940HS combined with the same 7900M will have much better battery life.

Other RDNA3 based laptops that has 7040HS class CPU paired with them have class leading battery life.

Imagine 8GB 3D V-cache. That would be glorious.

You can actually play in 1440p with 6700xt though. You cannot with 4060. The better memory bandwidth and capacity coupled with better performance cannot be simply solved by upscaling. 4060 is so bandwidth starved that it immediately falls off in any resolution greater than 1080p.

Ray tracing and DLSS 2/3 most probably yes. They are behind in ray tracing simply because they use compute shaders for ray tracing. Only they get full blown ray tracing cores I think they will perform similar.

Same with DLSS 2/3. There is a precedent for this. XESS was able to get pretty close to DLSS within an year. All AMD has to do is use machine learning for upscaling.

The biggest issue for AMD is not these features. But the fact that NVIDIA keeps introducing new features. So everytime AMD could catch up with one Nvidia Would have probably introduced 2 more.