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AMD Ryzen 7 260

AMD R7 260

The Ryzen 7 260 is a fast Hawk Point family chip for laptops that was announced at CES 2025. It features 8 Zen 4 cores (16 threads thanks to SMT support) running at up to 5.1 GHz. The chip is identical to the old Ryzen 7 8845HS and therefore also the Ryzen 7 7840HS (which did have a lower clocked NPU).

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 260 to be Copilot+ certified.

Elsewhere, the Ryzen 7 has 16 MB of L3 cache and a seriously fast RAM controller (up to LPDDR5x-7500 and up to DDR5-5600). PCI-Express speeds are capped at 1.97 GB/s per lane which corresponds to the 4.0 spec.

Please note that the APU isn't overclockable and neither is it user-replaceable. It gets soldered to the motherboard for good instead (FP8 socket interfaces).

Performance

Since the R7 260 is an 8845HS / 7840HS in disguise, it's safe to expect it to be just slightly faster than the Core i9-13900H and also the Ryzen 9 7940HS, as far as multi-thread performance is concerned.

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 (12 CUs / 768 shaders, up to 2,700 MHz) is capable of powering 4 monitors simultaneously with resolutions as high as SUHD 4320p. It will also have little issue hardware-encoding and hardware-decoding the most widely used video codecs (such as AV1, HEVC, AVC). As far as gaming is concerned, the thing will let you play most games at 1080p as long as you are fine with low of very low settings.

Your mileage may vary depending on how high the APU 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 35 W to 54 W, giving system makers a choice between improving battery life and making the system they're designing as powerful as possible. Either way, an active cooling solution is a must for a laptop or a mini-PC built around this Ryzen.

The R7 260 is built with a 4 nm TSMC process for high, as of late 2023, energy efficiency.

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

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

AMD Ryzen 9 270 compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 260 « 3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS compare3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 240 compare4.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS compare4.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS compare3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
Clock Rate3800 - 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)45 Watt
Manufacturing Technology4 nm
Die Size178 mm2
Max. Temperature100 °C
SocketFP8
FeaturesDDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, PCIe 4, USB 4, Ryzen AI (16 TOPS), MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
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
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» 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

+ Intel Core i7-13650HX
   14x 1.9 GHz - 4.9 GHz
+ Apple M3 Pro 12-Core
   12x 2.75 GHz - 4.06 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 5 135H
   14x 3.6 GHz - 4.6 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
+ AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS
   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 7 7840HS
   8x 3.8 GHz - 5.1 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS
   8x 3.8 GHz - 5.1 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2025-01-15)