Ryzen 5 7640HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS is the Phoenix take on AMD's performance-thin line — a 6-core Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 7000 generation that became a fixture of gaming and all-round laptops. The catalog matches it to 22 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 5 7640HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 82.6 places the chip 33rd of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top five percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood belongs to 2023–2024 premium parts: the Core Ultra 7 268V (84.3), Core Ultra 7 256V (83.9) and Core Ultra 7 258V (83.9) just above, the Ryzen AI 5 340 (82.5), Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (81.6) and Ryzen 7 8840U (81.6) just below. A 2023 Phoenix design still out-ranking its own 7840U and 8840U siblings — and nipping at next-generation Lunar Lake parts — is the whole story: this silicon has aged into the premium class.

What the chip brings

Phoenix-HS is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 35 W in its HS-class configuration: a 4.3 GHz base clock and up to 5 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon 760M runs at up to 2,600 MHz, which matters for the machines in this roster that ship without discrete graphics. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,307 single-core and 9,317 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 22-model roster leans gaming hard for 2023–2024: HP's OMEN 16 family runs from $894 to $1,593 across five variants, the Victus 16 pair sits at $894 and $1,183, Acer's Nitro 16 and Nitro 17 land at $922 each, and the Lenovo LOQ 16APH8 matches them at $922. The sober exceptions are the HP ZBook Firefly 14 G10 workstation at $1,126 and the ASUS Vivobook 16 (M1605) at $553. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 82 and a performance index of 80.5 reflect the discrete-GPU majority, while mobility at 38.5 and portability at 27 say these are substantial machines rather than ultrabooks.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 5 7640HS suits a buyer who wants one laptop for everything: processor headroom for effectively the entire tracked game catalog at recommended CPU settings, a roster of real gaming machines from $894 to $1,593, and creator-class numbers across the fleet. Judge gaming value by the specific GPU in each listing — the CPU badge here is almost never the limit.