AMD compared Ryzen 8040 favorably to Intel's 13th-gen laptop CPUs, but didn't provide comparisons to any of its own products. AMD Strix Point, coming later in 2024, may be a larger upgrade.

The Ryzen 8040 chips, spearheaded by the 8-core Ryzen 9 8945HS, are up to 1.4 times faster than its predecessors when its comes to Llama 2 and AI vision model performance, according to AMD.

AMD's laptop APU line got a refresh on Wednesday in the form of the Ryzen 8040 series, and at least going by the announcement, AI is the priority and main dividing line from the previous 7040 series.

The company’s new Ryzen PRO 8040 Series processors are basically business-class versions of the Ryzen 8040 Mobile chips that launched last year, meaning they have the same Zen 4 CPU cores, ...

AMD is keeping boost clocks of its new Hawk Point APUs above, or very close to 5.0GHz for most of the Ryzen 8040 series APUs. We have 5.2GHz at the top, while the 3 next CPUs -- Ryzen 7 8845HS ...

According to AMD, its 8040 series chips can run AI applications on-device much faster than their predecessors. For example, it says they're up to 40% faster when running a chatbot like Llama 2 and ...

ASRock's new 4x4 BOX 8040 Mini-PCs will feature 2 x SO-DIMM slots that support up to 96GB of DDR5 memory (2 x 48GB sticks), 2 x USB4 ports, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen2 port, 2 x USB 2.0 ports, 2 x M.2Key M ...