AMD Ryzen 9 8940H makes Geekbench debut with Radeon 780M iGPU

First benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen 8000 series of laptop processors, codenamed Hawk Point, are starting to show up online. This time, we get to see an interesting SKU, the Ryzen 9 8940H. Its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 7940H, was a China-only SKU with a TDP of 54 Watts. Specs-wise, it is practically identical to the global Ryzen 9 7940HS, with the only difference being the TDP. Now, the Ryzen 9 8940H has finally made its Geekbench debut.

The AMD Ryzen 9 8940H makes an appearance on the benchmarking platform alongside an Asus TUF Gaming A15 (US$1,524 on Amazon) variant with 32 GB of DDR5 5600 RAM. Whether or not AMD will launch it globally remains to be seen. Its Geekbench 6.2 single-core tests vary a lot across three runs, with the lowest being 2,467 and the highest 2,638. Similarly, its multi-core score ranges between 4,284 and 13,104. One can safely disregard the former, as it is undoubtedly erroneous.

Performance-wise, the Ryzen 9 8940H trades blows with the Ryzen 9 7940HS. However, it is obvious that the silicon in question isn't at its peak potential, and it will fare much better in subsequent runs. The Ryzen 9 8940H is an 8-core, 16-thread processor with a base clock of 4.0 GHz and a boost clock of 5.3 GHz. Lastly, it is paired with a Radeon 780M iGPU.