Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS is the PRO-badged take on AMD's 2023 Phoenix silicon — an 8-core Zen 4 HS-class design that found homes in both gaming rigs and business workstations. The catalog matches it to 25 models, and it clears the recommended CPU tier in 68 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 86 places the chip 28th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the top few percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood belongs to 2023–2024 premium parts: the Core Ultra 9 185H (87), Ryzen 7 7840HS (86.5) and Ryzen 7 8845HS (86.3) just above, and the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS (84.7), Core Ultra 7 268V (84.3) and Core Ultra 7 256V (83.9) just below. Sitting between the Ryzen 7 8845HS ahead and its own PRO 7840HS sibling behind is the practical story — flagship-class performance without the flagship badge or price.

What the chip brings

Phoenix-HS is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 design on a 4 nm process, rated at 35 W in its HS-class configuration: a 4.0 GHz base and up to 5.2 GHz boost. Integrated-graphics, memory and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,308 single-core and 10,934 multi-core in Geekbench.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 68 of 69 cataloged games — Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong and Returnal among them. Starfield is the single holdout, listing the chip above its minimum but below its recommended CPU requirement. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and with a median best-GPU score of 84.5, most of this roster covers that half too.

Laptops that carry it

The 25-model roster splits between gaming metal and professional machines. HP's OMEN 16 family carries the gaming flag across five variants from $894 to $1,593, with ASUS's ROG Flow X13 and TUF Gaming A15 at $922 each. The business side runs the EliteBook 845 G10 at $582, the ZBook Power G10 A and Firefly 14 G10 at $1,126 and the ThinkPad P16v Gen 1 at $1,126, while the ASUS Vivobook 16 at $553 is the budget entry. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, gaming index 82 and performance 80.8 with a median best-GPU score of 84.5 — while mobility at 45.5 and portability at 33.9 mark this as a performance fleet, not an ultrabook one.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS suits a buyer who wants one chip for both spreadsheets and sessions: processor headroom for 68 of 69 tracked games at recommended CPU tier, and a roster that runs from a $553 Vivobook through $1,126 workstations to $1,593 OMENs — judge gaming value by the specific GPU in each listing, not the CPU badge. Buyers chasing thin and quiet should note the portability median of 33.9; buyers chasing a do-everything 2023 classic get one of the most balanced fleets in the catalog.