AMD Ryzen 8000 Hawk Point APUs Official: Zen 4 CPU, RDNA 3 GPU, & Upgraded XDNA AI NPU With 16 TOPs

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AMD has officially introduced its latest Ryzen 8000 APUs codenamed Hawk Point, which refreshes the existing Ryzen 7000 "Phoenix" APUs.

Today at the AMD "Advanced AI" event, the company unveiled its Ryzen 8000 APU lineup which is codenamed Hawk Point. For those who have been following our recent coverages of Hawk Point, this new family is a refresh of the Ryzen 7000 "Phoenix" lineup released earlier this year.

AMD Ryzen 8040 Series processors are the latest to join the powerful Ryzenb Series processor portfolio and are expected to be broadly available from leading OEMs including Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Razer, beginning in Q1 2024.

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The Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" APUs are designed for client and consumer PCs, mainly targeting the laptop and notebook segment. Still, there will be additional Ryzen 8000 SKUs for laptops & high-end notebooks in the coming year in the form of Strix Point.

As for what to expect from AMD's Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" APU family, the lineup comes with the same Zen 4 CPU core architecture, the same RDNA 3 graphics core architecture, and very similar SKUs. The lineup is split into three segments, we first have the high-end Ryzen 8045HS APUs which will be the cream of the crop with the highest clock speeds, we then have the more mainstream Ryzen 8040HS SKUs and finally, we have the Ryzen 8040U which are entry-level SKUs designed for power-optimized platforms. To sum up the Ryzen 8000 "Hawk Point" family, you are looking at:

AMD Ryzen 8045HS "Hawk Point" APUs - 35-54W SKUs

There are a total of 9 Ryzen 8000 SKUs within the AMD Hawk Point family. First up, we have the Ryzen 8045HS SKUs which include the Ryzen 9 8945HS, Ryzen 7 8845HS, & the Ryzen 5 8645HS. These three chips have the same