AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS Benchmark, Test and specs

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The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS has 8 cores with 16 threads and is based on the 6. gen of the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO series. The processor uses a mainboard with the FP8 socket and was released in Q2/2023. The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS scores 1,974 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 11,600 points.
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS.

Name: AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
Family: AMD Ryzen 9 PRO (4)
CPU group: AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)
Architecture: Phoenix (Zen 4)
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 6
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS is 4.00 GHz (5.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 8 / 16
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 8x Zen 4
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 4.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 5.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (8 Cores): --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware: AMD Ryzen AI
AI specifications: AMD dedicated AI XDNA Technology

Internal Graphics

The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS uses the AMD Radeon 780M, which has 768 texture shaders and 12 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: AMD Radeon 780M
GPU frequency: 0.80 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 2.80 GHz
Compute units: 12
Shader: 768
Hardware Raytracing: Yes
Release date: Q1/2023
Max. displays: 4
Generation: 3
Direct X: 12
Technology: 4 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 32 GB
Frame Generation: AMD FSR

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode
VP9: Decode
AV1: Decode / Encode
AVC: Decode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 256 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 120.0 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR5-4800
DDR5-5600
LPDDR5-6400
LPDDR5X-7500
76.8 GB/s
89.6 GB/s
102.4 GB/s
120.0 GB/s
Max. Memory: 256 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth: 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 54 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 54 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: 35 W
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS is made in 4 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 24.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 4 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: FP8
L2-Cache: 8.00 MB
L3-Cache: 16.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date: Q2/2023
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: --

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Benchmark results

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The benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i7-13700 Intel Core i7-13700
16C 24T @ 5.20 GHz
2002
Intel Core i9-12900K Intel Core i9-12900K
16C 24T @ 5.20 GHz
1990
Intel Core i9-12900KF Intel Core i9-12900KF
16C 24T @ 5.20 GHz
1990
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
1974
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
1974
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
1974
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
1974

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon Gold 6132 Intel Xeon Gold 6132
14C 28T @ 2.90 GHz
11642
Intel Xeon Gold 6146 Intel Xeon Gold 6146
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz
11642
Intel Core i7-13700T Intel Core i7-13700T
16C 24T @ 4.20 GHz
11611
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
11600
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
11600
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
11600
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
11600

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i9-13900HK Intel Core i9-13900HK
14C 20T @ 5.40 GHz
2629
Intel Core i5-14600T Intel Core i5-14600T
14C 20T @ 5.10 GHz
2626
Intel Core i9-13900T Intel Core i9-13900T
24C 32T @ 5.30 GHz
2618
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
2617
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
2617
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
2617
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
8C 16T @ 5.20 GHz
2617

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core Ultra 7 165H Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
16C 22T @ 4.40 GHz
12545
Intel Core i7-12700 Intel Core i7-12700
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz
12448
Intel Core i7-12700F Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz
12448
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
12447
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
12447
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
12447
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
12447

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Intel Core Ultra 7 155H
Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake) @ 2.25 GHz
4460
Intel Core Ultra 5 135H Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake) @ 2.20 GHz
4361
Intel Core Ultra 5 135HL Intel Core Ultra 5 135HL
Intel Iris Xe 8 Core Graphics 128 EUs (Meteor Lake) @ 2.20 GHz
4361
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.80 GHz
4357
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.80 GHz
4357
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.80 GHz
4357
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.80 GHz
4357

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Apple A14 Bionic Apple A14 Bionic
6C 6T @ 3.00 GHz
11
Apple M1 Apple M1
8C 8T @ 0.60 GHz
11
Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 0.60 GHz
11
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
10
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
10
AMD Ryzen 9 7940H AMD Ryzen 9 7940H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
10
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
10

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