Ryzen 5 8640HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS is the six-core member of the Hawk Point family — a Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 8000 generation aimed at thin-and-light portables. The catalog matches it to 10 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 8640HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 77.5 places the chip 48th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top few percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood crosses generations: the Ryzen 7 7735HS (77.8), Ryzen 7 6800H (77.6) and Ryzen 5 7540U (77.6) just above, the Ryzen 5 8640U (77.5) alongside at the same score, and the Ryzen 9 6900HS (77.3) and Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS (77.2) just below. Outscoring both Ryzen 9-branded neighbors is the practical story — this is Ryzen 5 value silicon punching a class up.

What the chip brings

Hawk Point-HS is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 28 W in its HS-class configuration: a 3.5 GHz base clock and up to 4.9 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon 760M runs at up to 2,600 MHz, which matters for the convertibles in this roster that ship without discrete graphics. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,114 single-core and 7,887 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, Hogwarts Legacy and Helldivers 2 at the demanding end through Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal, Metro Exodus 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 most machines in this roster lean on the integrated Radeon 760M rather than discrete graphics.

Laptops that carry it

The 10-model roster is all-2024 and dominated by convertibles. HP fields the Envy 14 at $750, the Envy x360 14 and 16 at $1,084 each and the EliteBook 845 G11 at $1,007; Lenovo brings the Yoga 7 14AHP9 at $652 and the Yoga 7 Gen 9 at $1,084, and Dell's Inspiron 14 7445 2-in-1 matches that $1,084 mark. The workstation side runs through the ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 and ZBook Firefly 14 G11 at $1,408 each, with the Acer Aspire 15 at $650 as the budget entry. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 87.1 and mobility 70 — but a gaming index of 42.5, because these are thin portables built around the integrated GPU.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 5 8640HS suits a buyer who wants a modern, quiet convertible or business portable: processor headroom for effectively the entire tracked game catalog at recommended CPU settings, and a 2024-only roster that runs from a $650 Aspire to $1,400-class workstations. Gaming value depends almost entirely on each machine's Radeon 760M and RAM, so judge gaming expectations by the specific laptop, not the CPU badge. For office work, browsing and everyday creative use, this chip will rarely be the limiter.