The AMD Ryzen 8040 processor series reinforces the company’s market leadership with Ryzen AI
The American company AMD announced the new AMD Ryzen 8040 series of mobile processors, expanding its leading range of mobile devices with best-in-class x86 processor performance. With an integrated Ryzen AI NPU unit on select models, AMD brings the most modern AI computers to the market, [[with up to 1.6x more AI processing performance than previous AMD models, to deliver new cutting-edge AI-ready experiences and capabilities. To further enable great AI experiences, AMD is also making Ryzen AI software widely available to users to easily build and deploy machine learning models on their AI PCs.
„We continue to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient NPUs with Ryzen AI technology to reinvent the PCsaid Jack Hein, SVP and general manager of AMD's Computing and Graphics business. “The increased AI capabilities of the 8040 series will now handle larger models to enable the next stage of the AI user experience”
AMD Ryzen 8040 processor series
The AMD Ryzen 8040 processor series offers next-level performance from everyday productivity to incredible content creation, with the Ryzen 9 8945HS processor offering up to 64 percent faster video editing and up to 37 percent faster 3D rendering than the competition, while gamers can enjoy up to 77 percent faster performance during gaming.
AMDBuilt on AMD's “Zen 4” processor architecture and with up to eight cores capable of computing 16 instruction sets, the Ryzen 9 8945HS offers industry-leading single- and multi-core performance. With Radeon graphics based on the AMD RDNA 3 architecture and select systems powered by the AMD XDNA architecture built for AMD Ryzen AI, the new processors are designed for creative professionals, gamers and mainstream users looking for a powerful laptop for reliable performance today and the ability to power advanced AI experiences tomorrow .
The latest AMD Ryzen processors deliver the highest performance available for ultra-thin PC laptops and long battery life through innovative power management features, making it the perfect choice for modern professionals, gaming enthusiasts and creatives looking for faster and more energy-efficient computing. The AMD Ryzen 8040 processor series also comes with advanced support for LPDDR5 memory. With these new processors, users are able to take advantage of immersive virtual experiences, gaming and streaming, and trust their devices to support demanding AI use cases while maintaining power efficiency.
| Model | Core / instruction sets | Boost / Base frequency | Total Cache | TDP | NPU |
| AMD Ryzen™ 9 8945HS | 8C/16T | Do 5,2 GHz / 4,0 GHz | 24MB | 45W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 7 8845HS | 8C/16T | Do 5,1 GHz / 3,8 GHz | 24MB | 45W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 7 8840HS | 8C/16T | Do 5,1 GHz / 3,3 GHz | 24MB | 28W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 7 8840U | 8C/16T | Do 5,1 GHz / 3,3 GHz | 24MB | 28W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 5 8645HS | 6C/12T | Do 5,0 GHz / 4,3 GHz | 22MB | 45W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 5 8640HS | 6C/12T | Do 4,9 GHz / 3,5 GHz | 22MB | 28W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 5 8640U | 6C/12T | Do 4,9 GHz / 3,5 GHz | 22MB | 28W | And |
| AMD Ryzen™ 5 8540U | 6C/12T | Do 4,9 GHz / 3,2 GHz | 22MB | 28W | N / A |
| AMD Ryzen™ 3 8440U | 4C/8T | Do 4,7 GHz / 3,0 GHz | 12MB | 28W | N / A |
AMD Ryzen 8040 processors support the security features of Windows 11. Select AMD Ryzen 8040 series processor systems can also access artificial intelligence with the Window Studio Effects Pack, enabling privacy at home or on the go with background blur, gaze tracking and noise cancellation.
AMD„It's been incredible to see AMD and Microsoft's decades-long partnership move into the next wave of technology, bringing AI innovation to our mutual customers.“, said Pavan Davuluri, CVP Windows + Devices, Microsoft. “We're so excited to see the Ryzen 8040 series of devices and can't wait to see what developers and customers do with all these innovations.”
Introducing developer software for Ryzen AI
Ryzen AI software is now widely available, allowing developers to build and deploy machine learning models trained in frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and run them on select laptops powered by Ryzen AI.
AMD infographicThe 1.0 version of Ryzen AI software enables ONNX Runtime applications and offers a pre-optimized zoo model on Hugging Face, allowing users to get AI models up and running in minutes. Ryzen AI laptops can offload AI models to the NPU, freeing up the CPU to reduce power consumption while extending battery life. As part of the Ryzen AI software launch, developers can take advantage of Ryzen AI to build AI applications with advanced gesture recognition, biometric authentication, and other accessibility features. Developers are also given early access support for automatic speech recognition models like Whisper and large-scale language models (LLM) like OPT and Llama-2 to build natural language speaking areas for their applications and unlock other meaningful natural language processing such as document summarization and e-mail help.
AMD also recently announced the Pervasive AI Developers Contest – a challenge for developers to create innovative and exciting AI applications with use cases in data centers, workstations and laptops, gaming, robotics and more. One option for the competition is for developers to build PC applications using LLM vision, speech or domain optimizations to bring PC AI to life and highlight its potential to improve user experience and efficiency. Applications for complementary hardware close on January 31st.