Ryzen 7 8840HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS is the Hawk Point refresh of AMD's premium thin-and-light line — an 8-core Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 8000 generation built for portables that want near-flagship processing without a big power budget. The catalog matches it to 14 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 8840HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 80 places the chip 41st of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top six percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood mixes generations: the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H (80.5), Core Ultra 5 226V (80.5) and Ryzen 9 6900HX (80.2) just above, the Ryzen 7 7840U (79.3), Ryzen 5 7640U (78.7) and Ryzen 7 PRO 6850H (78.3) just below. Sitting within half a point of the 2022 flagship Ryzen 9 6900HX while out-ranking its own U-class sibling the Ryzen 7 7840U is the practical story — current-generation throughput without the flagship badge or price.

What the chip brings

Hawk Point-HS is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 28 W in its HS-class configuration: a 3.3 GHz base clock and up to 5.1 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon 780M runs at up to 2,700 MHz, which matters for the machines in this roster that ship without discrete graphics. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,068 single-core and 9,021 multi-core in Geekbench. Memory support and cache 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 Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 at the demanding end through Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Counter-Strike 2 down to the lightest esports 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 this roster leans on the integrated Radeon 780M more often than on discrete cards.

Laptops that carry it

The 14-model roster leans modern and portable rather than gaming: the ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UM3406) at $1,232 and HP Pavilion Aero 13 at $1,084 cover the ultrabook end, HP's Envy x360 14 and 16, Lenovo's Yoga 7 Gen 9 and Dell's Inspiron 14 7445 handle convertibles at $1,084, and the workstation bench runs from the HP ZBook Firefly 14 G11 and ZBook Power 16 G11 to the Lenovo Thinkpad P14s Gen 5 at $1,408 each. The accessible end is covered too: the ASUS Vivobook S 15 OLED, Acer Aspire 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 5445 all sit at $650. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 87.1 and mobility 73 — but a gaming index of 38 and a performance index of 59.35, because these are thin-and-light machines built around integrated graphics rather than gaming cards.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 8840HS suits a buyer who wants a modern do-everything portable: processor headroom for effectively the entire tracked game catalog at recommended CPU settings, efficiency that suits thin chassis, and a roster that spans $650 mainstream machines to $1,400-class workstations. Buyers chasing frame rates should check the GPU on the specific laptop first — in this fleet that usually means the Radeon 780M — while buyers chasing a capable daily machine will rarely find the CPU is the limit.