AMD Downgrades Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” Laptop CPUs Ahead of Launch: Lower GPU Clocks, Cut-Down Features
AMD has silently downgraded its Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" CPUs ahead of its laptop debut in the coming month.
AMD's official specifications and details mentioned on the official webpage have been a mess this entire year. From wrongly mentioned launch dates, features, clocks, and whatnot, the company had to apologize on multiple occasions but it looks like the latest change isn't due to a listing error AMD might have actually downgraded the specifications of its upcoming Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" laptop lineup.
The AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" lineup will debut next month in March but AMD seems to have updated the product pages of three Phoenix chips which now mention lower GPU clocks. AMD's top Phoenix CPU, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has been downgraded by -200 MHz from, 3.0 GHz to 2.8 GHz and the same is true for the Ryzen 7 7840HS and the Ryzen 5 7640HS. So it looks like none of the AMD Phoenix CPUs will be hitting the previously mentioned 3.0 GHz out of the box. You might still be able to overclock the chips to 3 GHz and beyond but not at stock.
There's no word from AMD yet on why they decided to lower the GPU clocks for these chips. The most interesting aspect about the Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" CPU is its GPU which is the first time we will be getting RDNA 3 on an APU. Lowering the clock speeds would mean that we are now going to get lower performance than what would have been possible with the previous clock speeds. It may have been done to keep the CPUs running at their certified TDP levels but that's just an assumption at the moment.
As for other features that will be missing from the AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" CPUs, Andreas Schilling of Hardwareluxx pointed out that PCIe Gen 5.0 functionality that was promised for the chip lineup has also been
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