AMD Ryzen 5 7540U 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 10 months late
Better graphics card performance
Higher specification of memory (7500 vs 2400)
Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 37.5GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (4.0 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 1.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (16MB vs 8MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 14nm)
Intel Core i7 8557U 's Advantages
Lower TDP (15W vs 30W)