Ryzen 7 7840HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS is the original premium Phoenix chip — an 8-core Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 7000 generation that spread across gaming, creator and business laptops alike. The catalog matches it to 29 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 7840HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 86.5 places the chip 26th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top few percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is wall-to-wall 2023–2024 premium parts: the Core i5-14500HX (87.6), Ryzen 9 8945HS (87.2) and Core Ultra 9 185H (87) just above, the Ryzen 7 8845HS (86.3) and Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS (86) alongside, and the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS (84.7) just below. Out-scoring its own Hawk Point refresh, the 8845HS, is the quirk worth knowing — on this table the original still edges the sequel.

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. 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 2,351 single-core and 11,001 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 Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy at the demanding end through Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal 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 that is where the machines carrying this chip vary most.

Laptops that carry it

The 29-model roster leans HP and leans gaming for 2023–2024: five OMEN 16 variants spanning $894 to $1,593, plus a trio of Victus 16 entries, two at $894 and one at $1,183. Business and workstation duty is covered too — the EliteBook 845 G10 at $582, and the ZBook Power G10 A and ZBook Firefly 14 G10 at $1,126 each — while the ASUS Vivobook Pro 15 OLED at $553 is the value entry. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 77 and a performance index of 80.2 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 7840HS suits a buyer who wants near-flagship processor performance at original-Phoenix prices: recommended-tier CPU readiness for effectively the whole tracked game catalog, in laptops that run from a $553 Vivobook Pro to $1,600-class OMEN gaming rigs. With its own refresh ranking just below it here, the 7840HS is a discount worth taking — judge each listing by its GPU and RAM rather than the CPU badge, because that is where these machines differ most.