AMD Ryzen Z2

The Ryzen Z2 Extreme is a powerful handheld processor (APU) of the Hawk Point family. It is based on the old Ryzen 7 7840U / 8840U but without the Ryzen AI engine. 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. 

Architecture & Features

Hawk Point family chips are powered by the Zen 4 architecture, much like Phoenix and Dragon Range family chips are. That's not to say there is no difference between the three. With Hawk Point, AMD is betting big on generative AI; these chips are promised to deliver an up to 40% increase in generative AI performance over 7040 series APUs making apps like DaVinci Resolve and Adobe Photoshop more powerful than ever before.

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 8840U has 16 MB of L3 cache and support for super-fast DDR5-5600 and LPDDR5x-7500 RAM. The chip is 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.

Performance

Since the Z2 Extreme is a 8840U / 7840U in disguise, it's safe to expect it to be about as fast as the Core i7-12650H, as far as multi-thread performance is concerned. 

Graphics

The Radeon 780M has 12 CUs (768 shaders) at a currently not known clock frequency (most likely reduced compared to the Ryzen 7). 

Power consumption

This Ryzen 7 series chip has a long-term power limit (default TDP) of 28 W (configurable from 15 - 30 Watt). 

The Z2 Extreme is built with TSMC's 4 nm process..

Codename	Hawk Point-U (Zen 4)
Series	AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)
Series: Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) Hawk Point-U (Zen 4) AMD Ryzen 7 250 3.3 - 5.1 GHz 8 / 16  16 MB L3 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250 3.3 - 5.1 GHz 8 / 16  16 MB L3 AMD Ryzen 7 8840U 3.3 - 5.1 GHz 8 / 16  16 MB L3 AMD Ryzen Z2 « 3.3 - 5.1 GHz 8 / 16  16 MB L3 AMD Ryzen 5 230 3.5 - 4.9 GHz 6 / 12  16 MB L3 AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 230 3.5 - 4.9 GHz 6 / 12  16 MB L3 AMD Ryzen 5 8640U 3.5 - 4.9 GHz 6 / 12  16 MB L3
Clock Rate	3300 - 5100 MHz
Level 1 Cache	512 KB
Level 2 Cache	8 MB
Level 3 Cache	16 MB
Number of Cores / Threads	8 / 16 8 x 5.1 GHz AMD Zen 4
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)	28 Watt
Manufacturing Technology	4 nm
Die Size	178 mm2
Max. Temperature	100 °C
Socket	FP7/FP7r2/FP8
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 780M
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	x86
Announcement Date	01/06/2025
Product Link (external)	www.amd.com

Benchmarks

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