Thursday, July 13th 2023
AMD Ryzen 7040H Series Exclusive to China, 7040HS Assigned to Regions Outside of PRC
AMD's laptop-oriented Ryzen 7040 series of Zen 4 processors APUs—based on 4 nm "Phoenix" monolithic silicon—have been slow to hit the market, but folks have had plenty of time to study spec sheets and press material. The presence of similar-ish 7040HS and 7040H product assignments (also sharing nearly identical specifications) has caused some confusion within the PC hardware community. Team Red has finally got round to explaining the significance of their -HS and -H identifiers—product pages were updated with new information this month, showing that the Ryzen 7040H series exists as a Chinese market exclusive. NA, EMEA, APJ, LATAM regions will be getting the closely related Ryzen 7040HS lineup instead. ASUS, Lenovo, and Machenike are set to launch new laptop models in China that will feature Ryzen 7040H APUs—VideoCardz found it interesting that "some of them will not have discrete graphics and will have a higher TDP of 65 W".
Sources:
VideoCardz, AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS, AMD Ryzen 9 7940H
13 Comments on AMD Ryzen 7040H Series Exclusive to China, 7040HS Assigned to Regions Outside of PRC
"product pages were updated with new information this month, showing that the Ryzen 7040H series exists as a Chinese market exclusive. NA, EMEA, APJ, LATAM regions will be getting the closely related Ryzen 7040H lineup instead"
the pic also just shows 7040H and 7040H, no "S"
Of course, AMD can't make a marketing strategy worth a damn and stick to it. In the Cezanne generation, they wanted -HS to be a power-optimized 35W version of -H or -HX. In Rembrandt, it apparently because just a better-binned version of -H or -HX, or they were just too lazy to make base clock mean anything and it's literally just a cTDP -H/HX. Now it's also a region identifier?
I would have quoted whatever they originally said about -HS either being for thinner form factors or -HS being for laptop designs where AMD had design input.......had they not changed their minds with Phoenix.
To be fair, the original videocardz article is pretty sussy, claiming that AMD "explained" when nobody from AMD explained jack shit, this was just people scouring the website