AMD abruptly announced Ryzen 8040 mobile processors with Zen 4 cores, RDNA 3 graphics and XDNA NPU neural chip

AMD held an event called Advance AI. The company presented a series of Ryzen 8040 mobile processors for notebooks.

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The chips were codenamed Hawk Point. The lineup includes nine models led by Ryzen 9 8945HS. The processor received eight cores, 16 threads, frequency up to 5.2 GHz and TPD 35-54W. The graphics subsystem is represented by the Radeon 780M GPU.

The new chips received an advanced neural processor XDNA NPU, which is designed to accelerate the work of artificial intelligence algorithms. The Ryzen AI unit is designed by Xilinx.

The most modest processor is called the Ryzen 3 8440U. It is a 4-core, 8-threaded solution with a maximum frequency of 4.7GHz and a TPD of 15-30W. It has Radeon 740M graphics and does not boast XDNA NPU. The Ryzen 5 8540U is also left without a neural chip. This is due to the use of Phoenix2 crystals, which do not have XDNA support.

The company claims that the NPU's performance has increased by almost one and a half times compared to the neural processor used in the Ryzen 7040. Normal performance has increased by 10-80 per cent compared to the Intel Core i9-13900H.

Usually AMD unveils new mobile chips in Las Vegas at CES at the beginning of the year. As we can see, this time the company decided to hurry up. Laptops with Ryzen 8040 will appear only in 2024.

Source: AMD