The AMD Ryzen 9 8940H wasn’t the one Ryzen 8000 sequence laptop computer chip that debuted on Geekbench as we speak. Two different SKUs, the Ryzen 7 8840HS and the Ryzen 5 8640HS, have additionally proven up. They’re each direct successors to massively well-liked APUs that energy a variety of laptops and handheld gaming consoles, aka the Ryzen 7 7840HS and Ryzen 5 7640HS.
The Ryzen 7 8840HS appears to be an identical to its predecessor in all regards, together with core/thread rely and base/increase clocks. Efficiency-wise, it fares rather a lot worse, with a single-core rating of two,286 and 11,550. That may be a efficiency regression in comparison with the Ryzen 7 7840HS, which averages 2,670 and 12,919 in the identical Geekbench 6.2 benchmark.
Then once more, the Ryzen 9 8940H’s wildly inconsistent scores confirmed the laptop computer in query, an Asus TUF Gaming A15(US$1,524 on Amazon), was operating pre-production drivers. The AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS is not any higher off with its scores of two,274 and 10,469, which, as soon as once more, put it behind the Ryzen 7 7640HS (2,620/10,936).
It looks as if AMD has pulled off an Intel with the Ryzen 7 8840HS and Ryzen 5 8640HS by slapping on a recent label on an current chip. There might, nevertheless, be some under-the-hood tweaks in retailer for the accompanying Radeon 780M and Radeon 760M iGPUs. Nonetheless, one could be higher off choosing the Zen 5 + RDNA 3.5-based Strix Level APUs wherever attainable.
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