{"id":24859,"date":"2023-12-08T08:47:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T07:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g100.us\/?p=24859"},"modified":"2023-12-08T09:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:30:53","slug":"amd-announces-ryzen-8040-hawk-point-apus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g100.us\/amd-announces-ryzen-8040-hawk-point-apus\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD Announces Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” Mobile APUs, Touts Big Gains in AI Workloads"},"content":{"rendered":"

A whopping nine<\/em> new Ryzen 8040 series mobile APUs \u2014 codenamed “Hawk Point” \u2014 have just been announced by AMD but, unless you're partial to certain AI-related advancements, there's very little, if anything<\/em>, to get excited about. The timing<\/em> of this reveal is quite telling, too, seeing how Intel's own Meteor Lake CPUs are scheduled to come out in less than a week<\/em> and will supposedly feature some rather impressive AI chops as well.<\/p>\n

These “Hawk Point” processors are, essentially, a negligible<\/em> upgrade over their Ryzen 7040 predecessors, most of which are still in scarce supply, despite being officially released all the way back in May. AMD has been struggling with supply issues for quite a while and, if the last two-to-three years are anything to go by, we don't expect that to change in the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Differentiating these APUs from the ones they're designed to replace is a lot harder than it has any business being. They're still manufactured on a 4nm node, they still feature Zen 4 CPU cores (up to 8 cores and 16 threads, just like before) alongside RDNA 3-based integrated graphics<\/a> (with up to 12 Compute Units on the higher-end Ryzen 7 and 9 models). There is<\/em> a slight difference when it comes to their clock speeds and TDPs but, sadly, it's not as big a difference as we had hoped it'd be.<\/p>\n

For a more comprehensive look at the entire Ryzen 8040 series line-up, give the following image a look:<\/p>\n