AMD Ryzen 8000 Hawk Point APUs Official: Zen 4 CPU, RDNA 3 GPU, & Upgraded XDNA AI NPU With 16 TOPs

06.12.2023 - 23:17 / wccftech.com / Ai

AMD has officially introduced its latest Ryzen 8000 APUs codenamed Hawk Point, which refreshes the existing Ryzen 7000 "Phoenix" APUs.

Today at the AMD "Advanced AI" event, the company unveiled its Ryzen 8000 APU lineup which is codenamed Hawk Point. For those who have been following our recent coverages of Hawk Point, this new family is a refresh of the Ryzen 7000 "Phoenix" lineup released earlier this year.

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The Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" APUs are designed for client and consumer PCs, mainly targeting the laptop and notebook segment. Still, there will be additional Ryzen 8000 SKUs for laptops & high-end notebooks in the coming year in the form of Strix Point.

As for what to expect from AMD's Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" APU family, the lineup comes with the same Zen 4 CPU core architecture, the same RDNA 3 graphics core architecture, and very similar SKUs. The lineup is split into three segments, we first have the high-end Ryzen 8045HS APUs which will be the cream of the crop with the highest clock speeds, we then have the more mainstream Ryzen 8040HS SKUs and finally, we have the Ryzen 8040U which are entry-level SKUs designed for power-optimized platforms. To sum up the Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" family, you are looking at:

AMD Ryzen 8045HS "Hawk Point" APUs - 35-54W SKUs

There are a total of 9 Ryzen 8000 SKUs within the AMD Hawk Point family. First up, we have the Ryzen 8045HS SKUs which include the Ryzen 9 8945HS, Ryzen 7 8845HS, & the Ryzen 5 8645HS. These three chips have the same specifications as their Ryzen 9 7940HS, Ryzen 7 7840HS & Ryzen 5 7640HS SKUs with up to 8/6 cores, Radeon 780M/760M iGPUs, up to 5.2 GHz clock speeds, 16 MB total L3 cache and 35-54W TDPs.

AMD Ryzen 8040HS "Hawk Point" APUs - 20-30W SKUs

Moving down to the AMD Ryzen 8040HS SKUs, we have the Ryzen 7 8840HS and the Ryzen 5 8640HS. These two SKUs are designed as low-power offerings with 20-30W targets. The Ryzen 7 8840HS APU features 8 cores, 16 threads, 16 MB cache, a Radeon 780M iGPU, and up to 5.1 GHz clock speeds while the Ryzen 5 8640HS APU features 6 cores, 12 threads, 16 MB L3 cache, the Radeon 760M iGPU and up to 4.9 GHz clocks. These chips will come with lower base clocks and feature additional thermal/power limits to meet the requirements of power-constrained PCs.

AMD Ryzen 8040U "Hawk Point" APUs - 15-30W SKUs

Lastly, we have the AMD Ryzen 8040U SKUs which are once again the same configurations as the Ryzen 7040U SKUs. There are four SKUs which include the Ryzen 7 8840U, Ryzen 5 8640U,