AMD has brought its 4 nm Hawk Point and Phoenix APUs to business users in the form of the Ryzen Pro 8040 series for laptops and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops.
The Hawk Point architecture inside the Ryzen Pro 8040 series is actually nearly identical to the outgoing Phoenix arch that powered the. It uses the same TSMC 4 nm process, and nothing with respect to core count or frequency has changed for the CPU cores and integrated GPU. The single notable difference is the faster XDNA neural processing unit , which can hit 16 TOPS instead of just 10 on original Phoenix chips.
AMD is clearly hoping the Ryzen Pro 8000's greater efficiency, vastly faster integrated graphics, and dedicated NPU will make up for it. The larger Radeon iGPU and NPU combined can hit 39 TOPS, and we can only assume the Ryzen 9 Pro 7945 with a tiny iGPU and no NPU can only hit a few TOPS at best. AMD is banking hard on AI with its latest Ryzen Pro chips, especially as better AI performance is the only selling point compared to previous models. The company says AI can free up time by doing work that would otherwise be done by hand, such as writing documents and emails based on"a few bullet points." Although you'd have to trust an AI to get it right and not waste meeting minutes figuring out AI word salad.