AMD's Hardware AI Ryzen 'Phoenix' CPUs Set to Soar in Razer's Blade 14 Laptop
Red Team: Your wait for AMD's "Phoenix" to rise is almost over. AMD first pulled the curtain off its new Phoenix line of Ryzen 7000 laptop processors back at CES 2023, and now laptops with these chips are almost here. AMD recently gave us the rundown of its Ryzen 7040HS Series, which will appear in cutting-edge laptops soon, notably the latest refresh of the Razer Blade 14.
The main differentiator between the Phoenix chips and their fellow Ryzen 7000 "Dragon Range" line is the presence of hardware-based AI acceleration. Read on for the CPU speeds and feeds, as well as the explanation of this onboard AI capability.
Before getting into the fancy AI features, let’s go back to CPU basics with a refresher of this announcement. The 7040 Series chips are built on AMD’s latest architecture, "Zen 4," which has shown tremendous performance on both desktops and laptops.
The few Ryzen 7000 systems we’ve seen so far have been impressive, as shown in our Dragon Range testing (linked above), but we haven’t yet tested any laptops yet with the Phoenix class. You can read more about the shared Ryzen 7000 architecture here, and you can also find a rundown of AMD's recently revised chip-naming conventions for better digestion of the CPU number salad.
AMD's Ryzen 7040 HS line comprises three chips: the Ryzen 5 7640HS, the Ryzen 7 7840HS, and the Ryzen 9 7940HS...
During a media briefing, AMD detailed the advantages and performance expectations of these processors. The chip maker claims to see an average 13% improvement on instructions per cycle (IPC) with Zen 4 over Zen 3, thanks to the larger cache, superior branch prediction, and a more efficient queue. AMD also ran through several benchmark samples, some of which you’ll see in these
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