Ryzen 5 8640U: specs and benchmarks

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Ryzen 5 8640U
2023
6 cores / 12 threads, 28 Watt
13.24

Ryzen 5 8640U provides good benchmark performance at 13.24% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 5 8640U sales 6 December 2023. This is a Hawk Point-U (Zen 4) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 4 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4900 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP8 processor with a TDP of 28 Watt. It supports DDR5 memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 5 8640U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking570
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
Power efficiency44.75of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenameHawk Point-U (Zen 4) (2023)
Release date6 December 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads12
Base clock speed3.5 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed4.9 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache16 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography4 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size178 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H)
Number of transistors25,000 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 8640U compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketFP8
Power consumption (TDP)28 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 8640U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsRyzen AI, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, FMA3, MMX (+), SHA, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, SSSE3
AES-NI+
AVX+
Precision Boost 2+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 8640U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 8640U.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon 760M ( - 2600 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)
PCI Express lanes20of 128 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 8640U. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 5 8640U 13.24

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 5 8640U 21025

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 5 8640U 2227

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 5 8640U 8438

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 5 8640U's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Ryzen 5 8640U 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 8640U is Core i5-12500H, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 5 8640U:

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