New Geekbench results show the performance of AMD’s Ryzen 9 8940HS “Hawk Point” APU with 8 cores and RDNA 3 GPU, which could be a significant improvement for 2024 laptops.
The latest Geekbench benchmark has revealed AMD’s promising Ryzen 9 8940HS “Hawk Point” APU. This chip stands out with its 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 CPU and RDNA 3 GPU, planned for 2024 model laptops.
New Ryzen 9 8940HS processorAMD’s Ryzen 8040 series”Hawk PointAs part of its APUs, the Ryzen 7040 series appears to be about to update the “Phoenix” APU family. According to Geekbench results, this processor has a base clock speed of 4.0GHz, a boost clock of more than 5.1GHz, and a maximum frequency of 5.2GHz.
AMD Ryzen 9 8940HS “Hawk Point” Impressive in Geekbench Test
Hawk Point APU has RDNA 3-based GPU cores and Zen 4-based CPU cores. It is also stated that it has 16MB L3 and 8MB L2 cache with 35-45 watts TDP power consumption. In terms of graphics performance, the Radeon 780M GPU is used, which is built on the RDNA 3 GPU architecture and has 12 compute units.
The AMD Ryzen 9 8940HS chip performed with 32GB DDR5-4800 memory in the Geekbench test. It scored 13,258 points in the multi-core test and 2596 points in the single-core test. These results show a 4% increase in single-core performance and a 12% increase in multi-core performance compared to the previous generation Ryzen 9 7940HS. This could be a significant update to the current Phoenix series, rather than AMD’s next-gen APU, which is expected to launch with Zen 5 in 2025.
The new AMD Ryzen 9 8940HS could be an excellent APU in 2024 gaming laptops, especially when combined with high-end GPUs like the Radeon RX 7900M or RTX series. AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 series “Hawk Point” APUs are expected to launch at CES 2024, in the first week of January 2024.