AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS shows up on Geekbench alongside the Ryzen 5 8640HS

The AMD Ryzen 9 8940H wasn't the only Ryzen 8000 series laptop chip that debuted on Geekbench today. Two other SKUs, the Ryzen 7 8840HS and the Ryzen 5 8640HS, have also shown up. They're both direct successors to massively popular APUs that power a wide range of laptops and handheld gaming consoles, aka the Ryzen 7 7840HS and Ryzen 5 7640HS.

The Ryzen 7 8840HS seems to be identical to its predecessor in all regards, including core/thread count and base/boost clocks. Performance-wise, it fares a lot worse, with a single-core score of 2,286 and 11,550. That is a performance regression compared to the Ryzen 7 7840HS, which averages 2,670 and 12,919 in the same Geekbench 6.2 benchmark.

Then again, the Ryzen 9 8940H's wildly inconsistent scores confirmed the laptop in question, an Asus TUF Gaming A15(US$1,524 on Amazon), was running pre-production drivers. The AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS is no better off with its scores of 2,274 and 10,469, which, once again, put it behind the Ryzen 7 7640HS (2,620/10,936).

It seems like AMD has pulled off an Intel with the Ryzen 7 8840HS and Ryzen 5 8640HS by slapping on a fresh label on an existing chip. There could, however, be some under-the-hood tweaks in store for the accompanying Radeon 780M and Radeon 760M iGPUs. Nevertheless, one would be better off picking the Zen 5 + RDNA 3.5-based Strix Point APUs wherever possible.