AMD Ryzen 7 7840U 15W APU Benchmarks Show Core i9-12900 Single-Core & Ryzen 9 5900X Multi-Core Performance

New benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U APU show comparable performance to high-end desktop CPUs in a 15W design.

The AMD Ryzen 7 7840U is one of the many Ryzen 7040U Phoenix APUs which is designed for the 15-28W laptop and handheld market. This CPU carries 8 cores and 16 threads based on the Zen 4 core architecture and also packs a Radeon 780M iGPU that utilizes the RDNA 3 GPU architecture. It features 12 compute units for a total of 768 cores and those will run close to 2800 MHz frequency.

The same APU is being offered to handheld gaming consoles in the form of the AMD Ryzen Z1. This particular configuration is used by the Ryzen Z1 Extreme which officially broke covers yesterday. It's going to power the ASUS ROG Ally handheld and several other portable gaming solutions while the Pro and Standard Ryzen 7040U APUs will be aimed at laptops and notebooks.

This particular Ryzen 7 Pro 7840U entry was spotted within a Lenovo laptop with 64 GB LPDDR5X-7500 memory & no discrete GPU which is a good thing considering the Radeon 780M benchmarks have proven it to be a very capable integrated GPU.

In terms of performance, the AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 7840U scored 2429 points in single-core and 11,268 points in multi-core tests. We used a mix of older and new chips to compare the results from within the Geekbench 5 database.

As you can see, the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U excels beyond all previous-gen Ryzen APUs in the Ryzen 6000 and Ryzen 5000 family. Even the Ryzen 9 6900HX with a much higher power target is of no match and loses by 25% in single-core and 20% in multi-core tests. The 15-28W APU is also faster than desktop-class AMD & Intel chips in single-core and comes very close in multi-core tests.

We know that Ryzen 7000 and Intel 13th Gen CPUs are much faster but those also consume much more power between 100-200W which is 4 times as much as this chip. One important thing to note is that laptops might still offer slightly better performance than handheld consoles due to having much more breathing room for extra cooling compared to the compact handheld designs.

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This is absolutely fantastic performance that the majority of us will be getting in upcoming Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" laptops and handheld consoles (utilizing the Ryzen Z1 chips). Plus having higher efficiency will lead to far better battery timings than the previous gen. Expect Ryzen 7040 U-series to hit shelves soon after the H/HS series launch which should be within this week.

News Source: Benchleaks