Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS is the business-credentialed take on AMD's Phoenix generation — an 8-core Zen 4 design from 2023 that found its way into both boardrooms and gaming rigs. The catalog matches it to 31 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement 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 7 PRO 7840HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 84.7 places the chip 29th 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 Ryzen 7 7840HS (86.5), Ryzen 7 8845HS (86.3) and Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS (86) just above, the Core Ultra 7 268V (84.3) just below, and the Core Ultra 7 256V and 258V (both 83.9) beyond them. Ranking within two points of the consumer Ryzen 7 7840HS is the practical story — this is the same performance class, sold through the PRO channel rather than a different tier of silicon.

What the chip brings

Phoenix-HS is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 35 W in its HS-class configuration: a 3.8 GHz base clock and up to 5.1 GHz boost. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,234 single-core and 10,542 multi-core in Geekbench. Memory, cache and integrated graphics details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 68 of 69 cataloged games — from Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy at the demanding end through Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2, Call of Duty: Warzone, Fortnite and Red Dead Redemption 2 down to the lightest esports and simulation entries. 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 well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and the machines carrying this chip range from thin business portables to full gaming rigs.

Laptops that carry it

The 31-model roster leans gaming, and almost entirely on HP hardware: OMEN 16 machines from $894 to $1,593 and Victus 16 models from $894 to $1,183 make up the bulk, nearly all from 2023–2024. Business is covered by the EliteBook 845 G10 at $582, the ultrabook angle by the Yoga Pro 7 at $753, and the workstation side by the ZBook Power G10 A and ZBook Firefly 14 G10 at $1,126 each. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 72 and a performance index of 80.5 reflect the discrete-GPU majority, while mobility at 40.5 and portability at 27.7 say these are substantial machines rather than ultrabooks.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS suits a buyer who wants near-flagship processor performance with the fleet-oriented PRO branding: enough CPU headroom for effectively the entire tracked game catalog at recommended settings, and a roster that runs from a $582 EliteBook to $1,600-class gaming machines — judge gaming value by the specific GPU in each listing, not the CPU badge. Buyers who do not need the PRO stack can price the neighborhood's consumer Ryzen 7 7840HS against it.