AMD Announces Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile CPUs
- Laurent Giret
- Dec 07, 2023
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AMD unveiled its new Ryzen 8040 Series Mobile CPUs during an AI-focused event yesterday. The new chips still use the same Zen 4 architecture and RDNA 3 GPUs as the company’s Ryzen 7040 Series mobile CPUs announced earlier this year, but there’s a brand new AI NPU on select models.
At CES 2023 in January, AMD was proud to announce its new “Ryzen AI” platform. At the time the company claimed that its Ryzen 7040 Series mobile CPUs with Ryzen were outperforming Apple’s M2 chip by up to 20% while being up to 50% more energy efficient.
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With its new Ryzen 8040 Series mobile processors, AMD promises “up to 1.6x more AI processing performance” compared to previous generation CPUs. “The increased AI capabilities of the 8040 series will now handle larger models to enable the next phase of AI user experiences,” said Jack Huynh, SVP and GM of AMD computing and graphics business.
The Ryzen 8040 Series family includes 9 different mobile CPUs: The base Ryzen 3 8440U only has 4 CPU cores/8 threads of processing power, with a 3.0 GHz base frequency (up to 4.7 Ghz boosted). The top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 8945HS, however, comes with 8 cores/16 threads running at 4.0 GHz (up to 5.2 GHz boosted). With this chip, AMD promises up to 64% faster video editing, up to 37% faster 3D rendering, and up to 77% faster gaming performance compared to a similar system with an Intel Core i9-13900H CPU.
AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 Series mobile CPUs will start shipping in new mobile PCs starting in the first quarter of 2024. While Intel is also beating the AI drum with its upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs, AMD has other AI announcements for developers and enterprise users.
At its AI-focused event yesterday, AMD also announced that its Ryzen AI 1.0 software was now broadly available for developers interested in deploying their AI models on PCs with Ryzen AI. Lastly, the company announced two new AI-powered chips for data centers, the Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU, which Meta and Microsoft are both already planning to use as an alternative to Nvidia chips.