AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 215
The Ryzen 5 PRO 215 is a mid-range laptop chip that saw the light of day in early 2025. This Hawk Point family processor is similar to the rebadged Ryzen 5 220 (and therefore Ryzen 5 8540U and Ryzen 5 7545U) with lower clock speeds. Therefore, the R5 PRO 215 has two Zen 4 cores and four Zen 4c cores working together under the same roof. Compared to the consumer models, the PRO model offers additional security, manageability, and reliability features designed for professional users and workstation environments, such as Secure Processor (an ARM security co-processor).
The two fast Zen 4 cores run at 3.2 to 4.7 GHz and the smaller Zen 4c cores with less cache run at 3.2 to 3.55 GHz. All are all SMT-enabled for 12 processing threads. While there is no Ryzen AI support here, at least the users still are getting the modern Radeon 740M integrated graphics adapter.
Architecture & Features
Hawk Point family chips are powered by the Zen 4 architecture, much like Phoenix and Dragon Range family chips are. Unlike Zen 3, Zen 4 features AVX512 support and, thanks to a plethora of other improvements including larger caches/registers/buffers across the board, is slated to deliver a double-digit IPC improvement over the former.
Elsewhere, the R5 PRO 220 has a 16 MB L3 cache and a very fast DDR5-5600 / LPDDR5x-7500 memory controller. The processor has full USB 4 support and thus Thunderbolt is supported as well. Its fourteen PCIe 4 lanes are more than sufficient for connecting a couple of speedy NVMe SSDs and a discrete graphics card; OS support is limited to 64-bit Windows 11, 64-bit Windows 10 and of course to Linux.
Like most laptop processors sold today, the Ryzen 5 is not overclockable and neither will you be able to replace it with a faster processor as it gets soldered down for good (FP7 or FP7r2 socket interface).
Performance
Due to similar specs as the old Ryzen 5 8540U and Ryzen 5 7545U, the performance should be only slightly lower (mostly in single threaded applications and benchmarks).
Graphics
The Radeon 740M has 4 CUs (256 shaders) at its disposal that run at up to 2,700 MHz. While this iGPU technically supports both ray tracing and DX12 Ultimate, it's not really fast enough for most triple-A games released in 2023 and 2022. It will however let you use up to 4 monitors with resolutions as high as SUHD 4320p, and more importantly it is capable of HW-decoding and HW-encoding the most widely used video codecs including AVC, HEVC and AV1.
Power consumption
This Ryzen 5 series APU has a long-term power limit (default TDP) of 28 W that laptop makers are allowed to change to anything between 15 W and 30 W. Either way, an active cooling solution is a must for any system powered by this chip.
The R5 PRO 215 is built with the 4 nm TSMC process for high, as of late 2023, energy efficiency.
| Codename | Hawk Point-U (Zen 4 + Zen 4c) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Series | AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Series: Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) Hawk Point-U (Zen 4 + Zen 4c)
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| Clock Rate | 3200 - 4700 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level 1 Cache | 384 KB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level 2 Cache | 6 MB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level 3 Cache | 16 MB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number of Cores / Threads | 6 / 12 2 x 4.7 GHz AMD Zen 4 4 x 3.6 GHz AMD Zen 4c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power) | 28 Watt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manufacturing Technology | 4 nm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Die Size | 178 mm2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Max. Temperature | 100 °C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Socket | FP7/FP7r2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Features | DDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, PCIe 4, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPU | AMD Radeon 740M ( - 2700 MHz) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 64 Bit | 64 Bit support | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Architecture | x86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcement Date | 01/06/2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Product Link (external) | www.amd.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Benchmarks
- Average benchmark values* Smaller numbers mean a higher performance
No reviews found for this CPU (yet).
