AMD Downgrades Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” Laptop CPUs Ahead of Launch: Lower GPU Clocks, Cut-Down Features-February 2024-www.yitit.com

AMD has silently downgraded its Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" CPUs ahead of its laptop debut in the coming month.

AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" Laptop CPU Lineup Downgraded: PCIe Gen 5 Removed, GPU Clocks Reduced

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.

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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.

AMD Ryzen 7040 "Phoenix" & Ryzen 8040 "Hawk Point" Laptop APUs:

CPU Name	Family	Process Node	Cores / Threads	Base / Boost Clock	L3 Cache	iGPU	iGPU Clock	TDP
Ryzen 9 8945HS	Hawk Point-H	4nm Zen 4	8/16	4.0 / 5.2 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 780M (RDNA 3 12 CU)	2800 MHz	35-54W
Ryzen 7 8845HS	Hawk Point-H	4nm Zen 4	8/16	TBD / 5.1 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 780M (RDNA 3 12 CU)	2700 MHz	35-54W
Ryzen 7 8840HS	Hawk Point-H	4nm Zen 4	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 780M (RDNA 3 12 CU)	2700 MHz	20-30W
Ryzen 5 8645HS	Hawk Point-H	4nm Zen 4	6/12	4.3 / 5.0 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 760M (RDNA 3 8 CU)	2700 MHz	35-54W
Ryzen 5 8640HS	Hawk Point-H	4nm Zen 4	6/12	TBD / 4.9 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 760M (RDNA 3 8 CU)	2600 MHz	20-30W
Ryzen 7 8840U	Hawk Point-U	4nm Zen 4	8/16	3.3 / 5.1 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 760M (RDNA 3 8 CU)	2600 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 5 8640U	Hawk Point-U	4nm Zen 4	6/12	3.5 / 4.9 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 760M (RDNA 3 8 CU)	2600 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 5 8540U	Hawk Point-U	4nm Zen 4	6/12	3.2 / 4.9 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 740M (RDNA 3 4 CU)	2500 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 3 8440U	Hawk Point-U	4nm Zen 4	4/8	3.0 / 4.7 GHz	8 MB	Radeon 740M (RDNA 3 4 CU)	2500 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 9 7940HS	Phoenix-H	4nm Zen 4	8/16	4.0 / 5.2 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 780M (RDNA 3 12 CU)	2800 MHz	35-54W
Ryzen 7 7840HS	Phoenix-H	4nm Zen 4	8/16	3.8 / 5.1 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 780M (RDNA 3 12 CU)	2700 MHz	35-54W
Ryzen 5 7640HS	Phoenix-H	4nm Zen 4	6/12	4.3 / 5.0 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 760M (RDNA 3 8 CU)	2600 MHz	35-54W
Ryzen 7 7840U	Phoenix-U	4nm Zen 4	8/16	3.3 / 5.1 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 780M (RDNA 3 12 CU)	2700 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 5 7640U	Phoenix-U	4nm Zen 4	6/12	3.5 / 4.9 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 760M (RDNA 3 8 CU)	2600 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 5 7545U	Phoenix-U	4nm Zen 4	6/12	3.2 / 4.9 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 740M (RDNA 3 4 CU)	2600 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 5 7540U	Phoenix-U	4nm Zen 4	6 / 12	3.2 / 4.9 GHz	16 MB	Radeon 740M (RDNA 3 4 CU)	2600 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 3 7440U	Phoenix-U	4nm Zen 4	4 / 8	3.0 / 4.7 GHz	8 MB	Radeon 740M (RDNA 3 4 CU)	2500 MHz	15-30W
Ryzen 3 7440U	Phoenix-U	4nm Zen 4	4 / 8	3.0 / 4.7 GHz	8 MB	Radeon 740M (RDNA 3 4 CU)	2500 MHz	15-30W