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AMD Ryzen 7 250

AMD R7 250

The AMD Ryzen 7 250 is a powerful laptop processor (APU) of the now years-old Hawk Point family that was announced at CES 2025. This isn't an entirely new APU; instead, the R7 250 is a rebadged R7 8840U. Its eight Zen 4 cores run at 3.3 GHz to 5.1 GHz and are SMT-enabled for a total of 16 processing threads. The Radeon 780M iGPU is responsible for 3D processing and similar duties.

Architecture and Features

Hawk Point family chips are powered by the Zen 4 architecture, much like Phoenix and Dragon Range family chips were. The 16 TOPS NPU present here isn't powerful enough for systems built around the 7 250 to be Copilot+ certified.

Elsewhere, the chip has 16 MB of L3 cache and support for super-fast DDR5-5600 and LPDDR5x-7500 RAM while also being compatible with USB 4 and thus with Thunderbolt. It comes with 20 PCIe 4 lanes, giving fast NVMe SSD up to 7.8 GB/s of throughput.

Please note that this processor is not overclockable and neither is it user-replaceable. It gets soldered to the motherboard for good instead (FP8 socket interface).

Performance

Since the R7 250 is an 8840U / 7840U in disguise, it's safe to expect it to be about as fast as the Intel Core Ultra 7 256V in multi-thread workloads. Therefore, the CPU performance is good enough even for demanding tasks, as of 2025.

Your mileage may vary depending on how high the CPU power limits are and how competent the cooling solution of your system is.

Graphics

The Radeon 780M has 12 CUs (768 shaders) purring away at up to 2,700 MHz. The Radeon will let you use up to 4 monitors with resolutions as high as SUHD 4320p and it will also HW-decode and HW-encode the most widely used video codecs (such as AV1, HEVC and AVC) without breaking a sweat. As for gaming, most 2024 games run fine at 1080p with settings set to Low on this graphics adapter.

Your mileage may vary depending on how high the CPU power limits are, how competent the cooling solution of your system is, how fast the RAM of your system is (there is no dedicated VRAM here).

Power consumption

This Ryzen 7 series chip has a long-term power limit (default TDP) of 28 W. Laptop makers are free to change that value significantly, with values as low as 15 W and as high as 30 W greenlighted by AMD. Either way, an active cooling solution is a must for any system powered by this chip.

The R7 250 is built with TSMC's 4 nm process for high, as of late 2023, energy efficiency.

CodenameHawk Point-U (Zen 4)
SeriesAMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)

Series: Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) Hawk Point-U (Zen 4)

AMD Ryzen 7 250 « 3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8840U compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen Z2 compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 230 compare3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 230 compare3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8640U compare3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
Clock Rate3300 - 5100 MHz
Level 1 Cache512 KB
Level 2 Cache8 MB
Level 3 Cache16 MB
Number of Cores / Threads8 / 16
8 x 5.1 GHz AMD Zen 4
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)28 Watt
Manufacturing Technology4 nm
Die Size178 mm2
Max. Temperature100 °C
SocketFP8
FeaturesDDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, PCIe 4, USB 4, Ryzen AI (16 TOPS), AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3
GPUAMD Radeon 780M ( - 2700 MHz)
64 Bit64 Bit support
Architecturex86
Announcement Date01/06/2025
Product Link (external)www.amd.com

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Other CPUs of the series Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)

» AMD Ryzen 9 270
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» AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
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» AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 260
   8x 3.8 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
   8x 3.8 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 240
   6x 4.3 GHz - 5 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
   6x 4.3 GHz - 5 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 250
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 8840U
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen Z2
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 230
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 230
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 220
   6x 3.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 220
   6x 3.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
   6x 3.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 3 210
   4x 3 GHz - 4.7 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 210
   4x 3 GHz - 4.7 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 3 8440U
   4x 3 GHz - 4.7 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ AMD Ryzen AI 5 PRO 340
   6x 2 GHz - 4.8 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
   6x 4.3 GHz - 5 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7640HS
   6x 4.3 GHz - 5 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 7 258V
   8x 2.2 GHz - 4.8 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 7 256V
   8x 2.2 GHz - 4.8 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 250
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 8840U
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 8840U
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
- AMD Ryzen Z2
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2025-01-13)