Though CES 2024 is occurring subsequent month in Las Vegas, AMD has lifted the lid on their newest Zen 4 cellular processors, the Ryzen Cellular 8040 collection. Codenamed Hawk Level, the Ryzen Cellular 8040HS collection is ready to be the successor to this 12 months’s ‘Phoenix’ cellular chips. Two new households of Ryzen Cellular chips have been introduced, together with the mid-ranged 8040HS APUs and the lower-powered 8040U collection with a decrease TDP designed for skinny and light-weight notebooks.

Starting from 8C/16T right down to an entry-level 4C/8T SKU, AMD’s Ryzen Cellular 8040 collection has 9 SKUs on supply (on the time of writing) and is a direct refresh of the earlier Phoenix 7040 collection slightly than a whole overhaul. This implies AMD’s Zen 4 core manufactured on TSMC’s 4 nm course of seems set to retake middle stage of their pocket book portfolio for a minimum of the primary half of subsequent 12 months. One other fascinating component of AMD’s Ryzen Cellular 8040 collection is that they incorporate the Ryzen AI NPU, developed by Xilinx, into seven of the 9 introduced SKUs. AMD acquired Xilinix final 12 months and appears set to make use of Xilinx IP once more to bolster AMD’s cost in direction of AI era.

Throughout final 12 months’s CES 2023 commerce present in Las Vegas, AMD introduced their first Zen 4-based cellular SKUs, specifically the Ryzen Cellular 7040 collection. Whereas customers did have to attend a substantial portion of the 12 months earlier than these SKUs hit retail through pocket book companions, they delivered stable moveable efficiency and effectivity, one thing which AMD’s Zen 4 microarchitecture has delivered in desktop, cellular, server and, extra not too long ago, within the workstation house. The Ryzen 8040HS and 8040U collection look to additional push the adoption of AI options with extra on-chip Ryzen AI-enabled NPUs than the earlier era.

Simply shortly recapping AMD’s product quantity naming scheme for 2023 to 2025, it was announced at the beginning of the year, and as such, it’s now in full swing. Preserving according to the earlier Ryzen Mobile 7000 series announcement in January, we are able to see AMD has stored inside its naming construction.

AMD Ryzen Cellular Product Quantity Decoder (2023- 2025)
AnandTech Signifies Values
First Digit Mannequin Yr 7 = 2023
8 = 2024
9 = 2025
Second Digit Main Market Phase 1 = Athlon Silver
2 = Athlon Gold
3 & 4 = Ryzen 3
5 & 6 = Ryzen 5
7 = Ryzen 7
8 = Ryzen 7 or  Ryzen 9
9 = Ryzen 9
Third Digit CPU Structure 1 = Zen/Zen+
2 = Zen 2
3 = Zen 3
4 = Zen 4
5 = Zen 5
Fourth Digit Function Isolation /
Minor Efficiency Phase
0 = Decrease Phase
5 = Increased Phase
Suffix TDP/Kind Issue HX = 55W+
HS = 35W – 54W
U = 15 – 28W
e = 9W
C = Chromebook (15 – 28W)

With three courses of latest Ryzen Cellular 8000 collection SKUs, we have now two main product varieties: the HS (between 35-54W TDP) and the U (15-30W) collection. The principle distinction between the 2 households is the TDP, with the HS collection performing because the mid-range chips with enough energy to ship processing energy in varied workloads. In distinction, the U collection is designed extra for ultra-thin and lower-powered notebooks at simply 30 W on the high finish of the ability spectrum. Dissecting the mannequin scheme additional and utilizing the Ryzen 9 8945HS for instance, the 8 signifies a 2024 mannequin, with the 9 indicating a Ryzen 9 half. The 4 reveals the chip makes use of Zen 4-based silicon (TSMC 4nm), and the 5 means it is a higher-performance chip representing AMD’s positioning of their increased segmentation.

AMD Ryzen 8040HS Cellular: Phoenix Die Refreshed, Now Hawk Level For 2024

AMD’s drive seems to push on-chip AI capabilities in cellular proper from the outset of 2024, however Hawk Level is not new silicon, neither is it a brand new architectural design. As an alternative, they’ve opted to immediately refresh their present ‘Phoenix’ APUs and repackage them. Utilizing the identical TSMC-built 4 nm Zen 4 cores, which is AMD’s present flagship cellular CPU structure, a minimum of for the foreseeable future, the Ryzen 8040HS collection has 5 new additions to an ever-growing cellular product lineup. This consists of the highest SKU, the Ryzen 9 8945HS with 8 x Zen 4 cores, the marginally slower Ryzen 7 8845HS with 8 Zen 4 cores, and the Ryzen 5 8645HS with six Zen 4 cores. This additionally consists of two lower-powered 28 W additions, the 8C/16T Ryzen 7 8840HS and the 6C/12T Ryzen 5 8640HS.

AMD Ryzen 8040HS Cellular (Hawk Level)
Versus Ryzen 7040HS (Phoenix)
AnandTech C/T Base
Freq
Turbo
Freq
GPU GPU Freq Ryzen AI
(NPU)
L3 Cache
(MB)
TDP
Ryzen 9
Ryzen 9 8945HS 8/16 4000 5200 RDNA 3
12 CUs
2800 Y 16 35-54 W
Ryzen 9 7940HS 8/16 4000 5200 RDNA 3
12 CUs
2800 Y 16 35-54 W
Ryzen 7
Ryzen 7 8845HS 8/16 3800 5100 RDNA 3
12 CUs
2700 Y 16 35-45 W
Ryzen 7 8840HS 8/16 3300 5100 RDNA 3

12 CUs
2700 Y 16 20-30 W
Ryzen 7 7840HS 8/16 3800 5100 RDNA 3
12 CUs
2700 Y 16 35-54 W
Ryzen 5
Ryzen 5 8645HS 6/12 4300 5000 RDNA 3
8 CUs
2600 Y 16 35-54 W
Ryzen 5 8640HS 6/12 3500 4900 RDNA 3

8 CUs
2600 Y 16 20-30 W
Ryzen 5 7640HS 6/12 4300 5000 RDNA 3
8 CUs
2600 Y 16 35-54 W

Wanting on the specs, beginning with the Ryzen 9 8945HS, it has a base frequency of 4 GHz, with turbo frequencies of as much as 5.2 GHz. In comparison with its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 7940HS, no distinction exists in any of the specs, not a minimum of in comparison with what AMD has supplied us. The whole lot right down to the core/turbo frequencies, core depend, and the 16 MB of L3 cache stays similar. AMD makes use of the identical Radeon 780M we have beforehand seen within the 2023 Phoenix lineup, which each share the identical 12 x RDNA 3 CUs and a pair of.8 GHz graphics frequencies.

The identical may be stated concerning the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS, with 8C/16T of 4 nm Zen 4 cores and a base frequency of three.8 GHz, topping out at 5.1 GHz at turbo frequencies. This aligns with the earlier Ryzen 7 7840HS, which, once more, has the precise specs proper right down to the bottom. Wanting on the final of the three Ryzen Cellular 8045HS collection SKUs, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has 6C/12T, 16 MB of built-in L3 cache, with a 4.3 GHz base frequency, can hit as much as 5.0 GHz at turbo clock speeds, and has barely decrease spec built-in graphics than the opposite two chips, with simply 8 x RDNA 3 CUs clocked to 2.6 GHz. These are the identical specs because the earlier Ryzen 5 7640HS, which not solely denotes that these three chips are an similar refresh of the Phoenix variants, however they’re primarily the identical barring adjustments to the Ryzen AI NPU.

There are additionally two new low-powered additions to the HS collection, the Ryzen 7 8840HS is an 8C/16T half with a base frequency of three.3 GHz and a turbo frequency of as much as 5.1 GHz. It has 16 MB of L3 cache, with 12 x RDNA 3 CUs clocked to 2.7 GHz, all inside a TDP of 28 W. The second of those is the Ryzen 5 8640HS, which incorporates 6C/12T of Zen 4, a 3.5 GHz base frequency, can increase as much as 4.9 GHz, and has barely lesser built-in graphics with 8 x RDNA 3 CUs at a frequency of two.6 GHz. The Ryzen 5 8640HS additionally has 16 MB of L3 cache, with a TDP of 28 W, which is extra akin to the U-series chips than it’s to the HS collection.

All 5 of AMD’s Ryzen Cellular 8040HS collection SKUs embody AMD’s XDNA-based NPU designed for AI inferencing, which is extra broadly referred to as ‘Ryzen AI.’ It is price noting that technically, all of AMD’s Ryzen 7040 collection (Phoenix) CPUs had the NPU there bodily, however AMD did not allow it in most of them. The NPU itself is not new {hardware}, it makes use of Xilinx IP, which AMD now owns attributable to their acquisition of Xilinix final 12 months. AMD seems to be pushing AI capabilities immediately into the silicon as distributors, producers, software program builders, and the world undertake the precious advantages and skills AI can carry sooner or later.

Whereas the core elementary reasoning for these chips signifies a refresh, there’s extra to this than meets the attention. The primary comes via the AI efficiency, with AMD promising as much as 1.4x the efficiency utilizing the Llama 2 and Imaginative and prescient fashions in comparison with the earlier Ryzen 7040 collection chips. Pivotal to the efficiency will increase in Llama 2; this mannequin makes use of PyTorch in Keen mode, ONNX Runtime, and the ONNX efficiency device quantized to INT8. AMD has boosted the frequency by 60% on the NPU throughout the 8040 silicon in comparison with the 7040 collection, as AMD is claiming as much as 16 TOPS of efficiency from the NPU on the Ryzen 8040 collection in comparison with the ten TOPS on the 7040 collection.

This reveals that AMD used a extra conservative clock velocity on the NPU for the Ryzen 7000 collection cellular chips, and this might translate immediately into new frequency tables for 8040. Upping the NPU frequency whereas retaining the identical core frequencies on the Zen 4 cores might result in effectivity points, though AMD hasn’t disclosed this data.

The opposite distinction comes underneath the hood of the architectural nature of the Zen 4 cores, together with issues reminiscent of firmware updates, bug fixes, and minor optimizations. Whereas AMD hasn’t explicitly acknowledged what bugs have been mounted and what issues have been optimized, we are able to see that the XDNA-based Ryzen AI NPU has undoubtedly been upgraded. Within the above slide from the Ryzen 8040 collection slide deck, there are loads of built-in experiences to be gained from on-chip AI, together with many Adobe implementations inside Photoshop, Premiere Professional, Lightroom, and After Results.

There are additionally loads of options inside Black Magic DaVinci Resolve, together with auto-balancing, DNN-based deinterlacing, and AI-driven voice isolation options. We count on to see many extra as software program builders undertake AI inferencing of their software program, which ought to hopefully be pushed by silicon-level AI implementations and engines inside {hardware} to assist issues transfer ahead. AMD seemingly aligns with what Microsoft is optimizing for with reference to AI, particularly with its optimizations for software program, together with ONNX Runtime and PyTorch.

AMD Ryzen 8040U: 5 New 28 W SKUs, All On Zen 4 (4 nm) for 2024

Additionally introduced by AMD is not a lot a refresh of the previous Ryzen Mobile 7035 (Zen 3) series based on their Rembrandt Refresh, which was primarily based on TSMC’s 6 nm node. This household consisted of two distinct collection in HS and U flavors. For 2024, AMD has determined to go the whole Zen 4 route for each of those households for this era, which suggests all of at this time’s newly introduced chips are primarily based on Zen 4 and constructed utilizing TSMC’s 4 nm node, which successfully makes the whole collection a part of the brand new ‘Hawk Level’ household.

The final of AMD’s Ryzen Cellular 8040 collection SKUs to be introduced is the lower-powered 28 W U-series, with 4 new U-series chips starting from 4C/8T to an 8C/16T mannequin. Opening with the highest SKU within the U-series, the Ryzen 7 8840U has 8C/16T of Zen 4 (4 nm), with a 3.3 GHz base clock and turbo frequencies as much as 5.1 GHz. It shares the identical 12 x RDNA 3 CUs and a pair of.7 GHz graphics frequency because the Ryzen 7 8845HS however with a decrease 28 W TDP. The Ryzen 7 8840U additionally consists of AMD’s Ryzen AI XDNA block throughout the silicon, giving it on-chip AI inferencing capabilities.

AMD Ryzen 8040U Cellular CPUs
‘Hawk Level’ on 4nm 
AnandTech C/T Base
Freq
Turbo
Freq
GPU GPU Freq Ryzen AI
(NPU)
L3 Cache
(MB)
TDP
U-Collection 28 W
Ryzen 7 8840U 8/16 3300 5100 RDNA 3
12 CUs
2700 Y 16 15-30 W
Ryzen 5 8640U 6/12 3500 4900 RDNA 3
8 CUs
2600 Y 16 15-30 W
Ryzen 5 8540U 6/12 3200 4900 RDNA 3
4 CUs
2800 N 16 15-30 W
Ryzen 3 8440U 4/8 3000 4700 RDNA 3
4 CUs
2500 N 8 15-30 W

The Ryzen 5 8640U and Ryzen 5 8540U each have 6C/12T. Nevertheless, there are apparent variations between the 2. The Ryzen 5 8640U is a quicker chip with a 3.5 GHz base clock and has 8 x RDNA 3 CUs at 2.6 GHz. In distinction, the Ryzen 5 8540U has a barely decrease base frequency of three.2 GHz, with simply 4 x RDNA 3 CUs clocked at 2.8 GHz. Each chips have increase frequencies of as much as 4.9 GHz, in addition to each have the identical 16 MB of L3 cache. What primarily units each chips aside is that the Ryzen 5 8640U consists of Ryzen AI dropped at the desk by AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx, which gives built-in AI capabilities. The Ryzen 5 8540U doesn’t embody this, though each chips have a TDP of simply 28 W.

Lastly, the AMD Ryzen 3 8440U is the entry-level and, in the end, is the bottom spec chip in all of at this time’s bulletins. It has 4C/8T, with simply 8 MB of L3 cache, which is half the quantity of the opposite chips introduced at this time. The Ryzen 3 8440U has a base frequency of three.0 GHz, with turbo clock speeds of as much as 4.7 GHz, with 4 x RDNA 3 CUs clocked at 2.5 GHz. It’s also one in every of two chips introduced at this time that does not embody the XDNA Ryzen AI block built-in throughout the silicon, as, like its predecessor, it is primarily based on the NPU-less Phoenix 2 silicon.

AMD hasn’t supplied a selected launch date for the Ryzen 8040 cellular collection of processors, though AMD is at present transport to OEMs, and it is anticipated that they are going to be launched someday in Q1 2024. We count on AMD to make a broader announcement, probably with extra particulars connected, both simply earlier than or throughout CES 2024, which is ready to happen in Las Vegas from the ninth to the twelfth of January 2024.

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