AMD officially announced the Ryzen 8000 series processors, codenamed Hawk Point. Ryzen 8000 processors announced at AMD’s Advanced AI event are updated versions of the Ryzen 7000 series. Let’s look at the features of mobile processors developed for the laptop segment.The Ryzen 8000 APU family comes with Zen 4 cores and RDNA 3 graphics cores like the previous series. Among the APUs that come in three segments, Ryzen 8045HS processors, which are the upper segment, have the highest clock speed. There is the Ryzen 8040HS series in the middle segment, and the low-power Ryzen 8040U processors in the lower segment. The features of the Ryzen 8000 series are as follows:
- 4nm Zen 4 core architecture
- RDNA 3 GPU architecture
- Scaling up to 8 cores 16 threads
- Radeon 780M integrated GPU at the top level (12 Compute units)
- Clock speed up to 5.2 Ghz
- Updated XDNA neural processing unit
- Up to 16 TOPs of AI processing power
- TDP between 15-54 Watts
- Release date: first quarter of 2024
AMD Ryzen 8045HS series
The first two processors of the series, consisting of Ryzen 9 8945HS, Ryzen 7 8845HS and Ryzen 5 8645HS APUs, have 8 cores and a Radeon 780M graphics processor. The last one comes with 6 cores and Radeon 760M graphics processor. Processors with a clock speed of up to 5.2 GHz and 16 MB L3 cache have a TDP value of 35-54 Watts.
AMD Ryzen 8040HS series
In the series consisting of Ryzen 7 8840HS and Ryzen 5 8640HS processors, we again see the 8/6 core and Radeon 780M/760M configuration. Processors with slightly reduced clock speeds come with a TDP value of 20-30 Watts.
AMD Ryzen 8040U series
Two of the 4 processors with low power consumption, 8540U and 8440U, do not have a neural processing unit. These two processors are hybrid processors with Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores. At the same time, the graphics cores appear as the trimmed Radeon 740M, unlike the others.
Zen 4c cores are more dense and economical cores with a smaller membrane area. Especially under 15 Watts, they can provide the same performance while consuming less energy.One of the reasons why the renewed Ryzen 8000 processors are released is to attract users to the artificial intelligence PC ecosystem. Artificial intelligence will be of great importance in the next version of Windows, Windows 12. Therefore, new APUs have the AI power to meet artificial intelligence requirements.
40% increase in productive AI
With the renewed NPUs (neural processing unit), processors can reach up to 16 TOPs of AI processing power. This value is 60% above the previous generation. According to the test results announced by AMD, a 40% performance increase was achieved in LIama 2 and Vision Models. AMD also announced that it is working on driver improvements to the Ryzen AI software to improve ML and AI performance.AMD Ryzen 8000 series APUs will take their place in laptops in the first quarter of 2024. The company will also announce a new laptop APU at CES 2024.
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