AMD Phoenix Ryzen 7040 APUs Benchmarked, Higher Performance Than Intel At Same Power, Gaming & Efficiency Leadership

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The first full review of AMD Ryzen 7040 Phoenix APUs has been published by Golden Pig Upgrade & it shows complete efficiency and gaming leadership.

While AMD's Phoenix "Ryzen 7040" laptops have been hit with a small delay, moving their launch & availability from April to mid of May, there are still a lot of reasons to wait for them as showcased in performance reviews and tests by Bilibili's content creator, Golden Pig Upgrade.

The AMD Ryzen 7040 Phoenix APU lineup utilizes both Zen 4 and RDNA 3 cores. The new Phoenix APUs carry LPDDR5x and PCIe 5 support and come in SKUs ranging from 35W to 45W. The APUs will be outfitted with the latest AMD XDNA AI engines based on Xilinx design known as Ryzen AI. It looks like AMD's RDNA 3 core architecture used in Phoenix APUs is internally referred to as RDNA 2.5 which means it is somewhat in between the RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 designs. It also makes use of brand-new FP8 packages which are larger in size compared to the FP7/FP7rs SKUs as seen below:

The FP8 package comes with MIPI CSI support and it looks like there will be two SKUs, a Type3 PCB with a 10-layer design and support for up to LPDDR5/x-6400 memory & a Type4 PCB with HDI and support for up to LPDDR5x-7500 memory.

So coming to the tests, a total of four laptops were pitted against each other, all from Lenovo (14"). All designs are 2023 and two featured Intel 13th Gen Core i7-13700H & Core i5-13500H while the other two featured the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS and Ryzen 7 7735HS CPUs.

The AMD laptops were configured with 55W while the Intel laptops were configured at 65W. The Intel laptops were using LPDDR5-5200 memory while the AMD laptops were using LPDDR5x-6400 memory.

First up, we have the synthetic benchmarks in Cinebench R23 where Intel