If nothing else, we will soon see laptops and mini PCs that upgrade to the Ryzen 8040 (including 8045, codenamed Hawk Point) platform mobile processors hit the market. So, what are the differences between the Ryzen 8040 and the previous generation model, and is it worth looking forward to?
Let's talk about the conclusion first, Ryzen 8040 is essentially the [vest] of the current Ryzen 7040 platform, and the relationship between them is just like this year's Ryzen 7 7735 (including H HS U) and Ryzen 7 6800.
Hawk Point's new platform still uses TSMC's 4nm process technology, a combination of ZN4 + RDNA3 microarchitecture, and an integrated AI engine with XDNA architecture. However, this time, AMD has tuned the AI engine part, and the AI computing power has increased from 10 tops (trillion times) to 16 tops, and 60% of the changes are asking you if you are afraid, and the overall computing power has also increased from 33 tops to 39 tops.
Stronger AI computing power means that the Ryzen 8040 can perform AI workloads locally away from the network and cloud, thereby reducing latency and protecting privacy. Of course, it can also run in a hybrid scenario of device + cloud, distributing tasks and collaborative acceleration between cloud servers and local notebooks.
In practical applications, according to the official data released by AMD, the performance of Ryzen 8040 in LLAMA 2 large language model and vision model can be improved by up to 40%.
AMD also compared the 13th Gen Core i9-13900H with the new product, claiming a 10% increase in multi-core performance, up to 80% improvement in gaming performance, and up to 40% improvement in content creation performance. There is no controversy about the increase in game performance, and the other two, the official did not announce the power consumption information of the two sets of test platforms, just take a look.
In addition to the obvious improvement in AI performance, you should not expect the Ryzen 8040 to show much improvement in CPU and GPU performance, because the base frequency and acceleration frequency of the new platform are exactly the same as the corresponding previous generation model.
Among them, Ryzen 9 8945HS corresponds to Ryzen 9 7940HS, and Ryzen 7 8845HS corresponds to Ryzen 7 7840HS.
Ryzen 7 8840HS and Ryzen 7 8840U are essentially one chip, but from a marketing point of view, they are divided into two product lines, HS and U, and their specifications are exactly the same as those of Ryzen 7 7840U.
As for Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3, you don't need to pay too much attention, among AMD mobile processors, only Ryzen 7 can maintain a competitive advantage compared to the core platform of the same level, and Jiansheng does not recommend that you choose a computer equipped with a Ryzen 5 processor, unless it is particularly cheap.
All you need to know is that the two entry-level models, the Ryzen 5 8540U and the Ryzen 3 8440U, are the only two processors that do not have an integrated AI engine.
In general, Ryzen 8040, which is the AI enhanced version of Ryzen 7040, fixes known bugs, considering that local AI applications will become the direction of all smart terminals such as PCs and mobile phones in 2024, Microsoft's next-generation Windows system is also with AI depth**, so in the case of ** flat or slightly higher, as long as the budget allows to choose to upgrade the new products of the Ryzen 8040 platform, it still makes sense.
On the contrary, if you are not interested in AI applications, the Ryzen 7040 platform, which has entered the price reduction cycle in order to pave the way for new products, is a more value-for-money choice.
AMD's real king in 2024 is the Ryzen 8050 platform (codenamed Strix Point), which will be released in the middle of the year (to be precise, mass production), which is a truly iterative new product, using Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3The combination of 5 GPU architectures, integrated XDNA 2 NPUs, and a more powerful Ryzen AI software suite is expected to match or exceed the RTX 3050 (Max-Q) in performance.