AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7040 AMD Ryzen 6000U
• Family
  Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• Form Factor
  Laptops / Desktops -
• Generation
  6 5
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Series
  Ryzen 7000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.3 GHz 2.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  8x Zen 4 -
• CPU Cores
  8 8
• CPU Threads
  16 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  5.1 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  5.1 GHz 4.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 3.4 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Execution units
  12 12
• Generation
  10 9
• GPU Frequency
  2700 MHz 2200 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 780M AMD Radeon RX 680M
• GPU Turbo
  2700 MHz No turbo
• Graphics Cores
  12 -
• Max. displays
  4 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2023 Q1/2022
• Shader
  768 768
• Technology
  4 nm 6 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  Decode / Encode Decode
• H.264 / AVC
  Conflicting source values: Decode | Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 6800U and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  256 GB 64 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  89.6 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR5 (FP7r2) / LPDDR5X (FP7-FP8) DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400
• PCIe
  PCIe 4.0 4.0 x 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and AMD Ryzen 7 6800U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Configurable TDP
  15-30 W -
• Default TDP
  28 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C 105 °C
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  28 W -
• TDP down
  15 W -
• TDP up
  30 W 28 W
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and AMD Ryzen 7 6800U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Phoenix (Zen 4) Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
• Chip design
  Monolithic -
• Codename
  Phoenix -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  8 MB 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  16 MB 16 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux -
• Release date
  2023-05-03 Q1/2022
• Socket
  FP7 / FP7r2 / FP8 FP7
• Technology
  TSMC 4nm FinFET 6 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM