It’s about that time of the year, when rumours surrounding AMD and its next set of Ryzen 7000 Series products start making their way online. On that note, there is already discussion about the appearance of a Ryzen 8040U mobile Series and Ryzen 7000G desktop series processors.
Now, to be clear, we’re not talking about CPUs powered by the next-generation Zen5 architecture. That’s not going to be coming out anytime soon and as it stands, AMD is clearly still looking to milk the current Zen4 architecture for its worth. With that out of the way, prominent hardware leakster @harukaze5719, recently posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, some information regarding several Ryzen 8040U mobile processors.
— 포시포시 (@harukaze5719) October 29, 2023
Codenamed Hawk Point, these Ryzen 8040U Series processors include the 8840U, 8540U, PRO 8540U, and the 8440U. While still unconfirmed, it seems likely that Hawk Point is merely a revision of the current Phoenix Point architecture that governs the 7040U mobile series that we’re seeing in current-generation laptops.
Harukaze also discovered a shipping manifest referencing the Ryzen 7000G series, which hints at the potential launch of desktop Ryzen processors, but to what point and purpose, is anyone’s guess. To elaborate: The G-Series were initially released by AMD because, prior to its Zen4 architecture chips, non-G CPUs lacked any form of integrated graphics. Today’s current generation 7000 series desktop CPUs all come equipped with a small set of Radeon RDNA2 graphics cores but even then, the chipmaker had advised folks that they shouldn’t try to game with them, as they are technically only there for the purpose of running diagnostics. In the even that the main GPU in the system fails to boot and the user is in a pinch.
As for the CPUs, codename Phoenix-G, the manifest lists three SKUs: a PRO and non-Pro 7500G, and a Ryzen 3 7300G. How AMD plans on making these processors available, though, is still unclear.
(Source: X, Videocardz)
