AMD Ryzen 8940H / 8840HS / 8640HS appear on Geekbench
ASUS new TUF A15 (FA507) gaming laptop is said to be the first known product to feature Ryzen 8040 processor series.
We might have the first leak featuring Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” series, AMD’s Zen4 refresh for 2024 laptops. This leak confirms that the 8040H series will indeed be based on AMD Phoenix architecture, which means Zen4 cores and RDNA3 graphics.
Furthermore, these specific CPUs are equipped with integrated Radeon 780M and 760M graphics. So, it appears that AMD is not making any changes to the graphics department; however, it remains to be seen if there are any adjustments made to the graphics clock. This data is missing from the Geekbench entries.
The Ryzen 9 8940H is said to feature 8 cores and 16 threads with a base clock of 4.0 GHz and boost up to 5.2 GHz. Those are identical specs to Ryzen 9 7940H(S) series; therefore this could be a simple rebrand.
Ryzen 8940H, 8840HS and 8640H Specifications, Source: Geekbench
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS is shown with 8 cores and 16 threads, so the configuration is similar to 8940H, except the clock frequency has been lowered to 3.8/5.1 GHz respectively. The Ryzen 5 8640HS is said to feature 6 cores and 12 threads with a base clock of 4.3 GHz and boost up to 5.0 GHz. In this case, the specs are also identical to the predecessor (7640HS).
In terms of performance, the 8940H scores 2467 points in Geekbench V6 single-core test, and, 13104 points in multicore. The 8840HS appears to be 7% slower in single-core and 12% slower in multicore tests, while the 8640HS has similar single-core performance to the 8840HS while multicore performance is about 9% lower.
| AMD Mobile APUs In Geekbench V6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | Single-Core ↓ | Multi-Core |
| Ryzen 9 8940HS 8c/16t @ 5.2 GHz | 2467 (85%) | 13104 (75%) |
| Ryzen 7 8840HS 8c/16t @ 5.1 GHz | 2286 (78%) | 11550 (66%) |
| Ryzen 5 8640HS 6c/12t @ 5.0 GHz | 2276 (78%) | 10469 (60%) |
AMD is expected to introduce its new 8040H series early next year, but the Zen4 rebrands are not the proper mobile series that consumers should be looking forward to. The Strix Point APU series powered by Zen5 and RDNA3.5 architecture is something that should deliver higher performance across the stack.
| AMD RYZEN Hawk Point & Phoenix Series | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | Cores/Threads | Base/Boost Clock | GPU Clock | GPU | TDP |
| Ryzen 8000 | |||||
| Ryzen 9 8940H(S) | TBC | ||||
| Ryzen 7 8840H(S) | TBC | ||||
| Ryzen 5 8640H(S) | TBC | ||||
| Ryzen 7000 | |||||
| Ryzen 9 7940H(S) | |||||
| Ryzen 7 7840H(S) | |||||
| Ryzen 5 7640H(S) |
Source: Geekbench (8940H) , (8840HS) , (8640HS) via BenchLeaks