[Hardware] AMD Phoenix Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS APU Goes In Business Laptops & Ryzen 7 7840U In ASUS ROG Ally Handheld Console

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The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS APU has leaked out while the Ryzen 7 7840U "Phoenix" will power ASUS's ROG Ally handheld console.

 

AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS Is The First Phoenix APU For Business Laptops, Ryzen 7 7840U To Power ASUS ROG Ally Handheld Console
We have got two leaks regarding AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7040 Phoenix APUs to report and both are for very different platforms. The first is a Phoenix PRO APU which should share specs with the Ryzen 9 7940HS while the second leak is regarding the ASUS ROG Ally handheld console which will be utilizing the U-series chip.

First AMD Phoenix PRO APU Leaks Out

Starting with the AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 7940HS, we have an 8-core and 16-thread part which was spotted within the Ashes of The Singularity benchmark. The CPU was running in a laptop with AMD's Radeon RX 7600M GPU which uses the same RDNA 3 architecture as the iGPU featured inside the Phoenix APUs.

 

 

While there's no point in comparing the performance figures, what we can say is that the Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS should feature the rest of the specs similar to its sibling, the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Non-Pro chip has a base clock of 4.0 GHz, and a boost clock of 5.2 GHz, and features a 24 MB (L3+L2) cache. The APU has a TDP ranging between 35-54W while the iGPU features 12 compute units that operate at 2.8 GHz clocks.

AMD hasn't particularly confirmed any PRO APUs yet but we should expect them a few months after the standard SKUs launch. The first Phoenix laptops are expected to hit retail shelves this month with rumors pointing to the end of April.

ASUS ROG Ally Gets Power-Tuned Ryzen 7 7840U Phoenix APU

Shipping manifestos discovered by Videocardz have revealed that ASUS's upcoming ROG Ally hand-held gaming console will be utilizing the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U APU. This is a more power-optimized variant that makes perfect sense for a device such as the ROG Ally & will place it in the same tier as other upcoming

handhelds such as the GPD Win Max and AOKZOE A1 Pro which are also going to utilize the same chip.

 

 

The AMD Ryzen 7 7840U is another Ryzen 7040U Phoenix APU which is designed for the 15-28W laptop designs. 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 graphics architecture. The GPU side has 12 compute units for a total of 768 cores and those will run well above the 2.5 GHz frequency. The APU has already been seen running in various benchmarks and packs a punch even at its 28W TDP design. Meanwhile, the RDNA 3 iGPU puts up a good fight with the RTX 2050 and GTX 1650 Ti GPUs for laptops.

Now ASUS did state that they were using a custom version that is designed exclusively for them so there might be some certain changes though we won't know how big those changes are until the device is officially revealed to the public. What ASUS has stated is that the launch of the ROG Ally handheld is sooner than we expect so stay tuned for more info.

 

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