2+4=AMD hybrid Ryzen 7040 APU

Clever mixing of dies creates new APUs.

July 31, 2023

Jon Peddie

The Ryzen 7040 APU stands out as AMD’s first Zen CPU with six cores, a departure from their previous two-, four-, or eight-core offerings. Phoenix 2 combines a dual-core Zen 4 CPU and a quad-core Zen 4c CPU in one chip. The original Phoenix chips used Zen 4 design and RDNA 3 graphics, while Phoenix 2 adopts a hybrid design with both Zen 4 and Zen 4c cores for the CPU and RDNA 3 graphics cores for the integrated GPU. The Ryzen 5 7440U is the first APU to utilize this configuration. Although there are slight differences in L3 cache,

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