AMD Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” APU Benchmarks Leak: Ryzen 9 8940H, Ryzen 7 8840HS, Ryzen 5 8640HS

AMD's Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" APUs which include the Ryzen 9 8940H, Ryzen 7 8840HS & Ryzen 5 8640HS have been leaked along with their benchmarks.

The latest APUs show up just a few weeks after we reported the first listing of the Ryzen 9 8940HS in the same benchmark database. Now, the Geekbench database lists down three of AMD's next-gen Ryzen 8040 series APUs which will be part of the Hawk Point family. The AMD Hawk Point APU family is simply a refresh of the existing Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" family, featuring the same Zen 4 & RDNA 3 cores. The three SKUs that have been leaked include the Ryzen 9 8940H, the Ryzen 7 8840HS, and the Ryzen 5 8640HS.

Starting with the flagship, we first have the AMD Ryzen 9 8940H APU which features the same specs as the Ryzen 9 7940H with 8 cores, 16 threads, a base clock of 4.0 GHz, a boost clock of 5.2 GHz and 16 MB of L3 cache. This chip is equipped with the AMD Radeon 780M iGPU with 12 compute units & operates at 2.8 GHz. The AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS is the same affair with 8 cores, 16 threads, and 16 MB L3 cache but lower clock speeds of 3.80 GHz base and 5.1 GHz boost which is similar to AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS. Both of these APUs should retain similar TDPs between 35 and 54W.

Lastly, there's the AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS which resembles the Ryzen 5 7640HS in specs with 6 cores, 12 threads, 16 MB of L3 cache, a base clock of 4.30 GHz, and a boost clock of 5.0 GHz. This chip has the Radeon 760M iGPU with 8 compute units clocked at 2.6 GHz. All three AMD Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" APUs were tested within the ASUS TUF Gaming A15 laptop with 32 GB of DDR5-5600 system memory.

In terms of performance, the AMD Ryzen 9 8940H scored 2512 points in single and 13,104 in multi, the Ryzen 7 8840HS scored 2286 points in single and 11,550 points in multi while the Ryzen 5 8640HS scored 2276 points in single and 10,469 points in multi-core tests. Following is how the new APUs compare against the rest of the mobility offerings:

Once again, don't expect a big improvement over the existing Phoenix APUs as the Hawk Point lineup is mainly a refresh or better yet, a rebrand, of the existing chips. The lineup is expected to hit retail in early 2024 after CES in a various set of laptops so stay tuned for more information.

News Source: Benchleaks