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AMD’s 8-core Ryzen 7040-series processor from 2023 for thin gaming and workstation laptops.
According to AMD, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is built on TSMC 4 nm FinFET and offers 8 cores and 16 threads with 8 MB of L2 and 16 MB of L3 cache. Its default TDP range is 35–54 W; laptop makers can choose different power limits within it.
The chip includes Radeon 780M integrated graphics with 12 cores at up to 2,800 MHz; in laptops with a discrete GPU, light tasks run on it to save battery. AMD gives the launch date as 30 April 2023.
Laptops · 2023
The Zephyrus G14 (2023) is ASUS’s 1.65 kg, 14-inch gaming laptop. This SKU has the Ryzen 9 7940HS, an RTX 4060 Laptop GPU running at up to 125 W and a 165 Hz QHD+ display, and is partly upgradable through one SO-DIMM and one M.2 slot. Independent testing counted the keyboard and touchpad among the best in its class; the CPU reached about 95 °C in Turbo.