ASUS Incorporates AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS “Hawk Point” APU In High-End ROG Zephyrus G14 Laptop

ASUS’s upcoming ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop featuring AMD’s top Hawk Point APU, the Ryzen 9 8945HS, has been spotted in Geekbench.

ASUS To Refresh ROG Zephyrus Laptop Lineup With AMD Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” APUs: G14 With Ryzen 9 8945HS Spotted

AMD’s Ryzen 8040 “Hawk Point” APUs were announced earlier this month and are expected to launch in February 2024. These laptops will mostly retain the same specifications as the current Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix” APUs but will carry an upgraded XDNA “Ryzen AI” NPU, offering up to 16 TOPs processing power.

Coming to the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop specifications, this model is a direct successor to the current model and is labeled as “GA403UV_00093645C”. The laptop features AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS APU with 8 cores based on the Zen 4 core architecture, 16 threads, a clock speed of up to 5.2 GHz & 16 MB of L3 cache. The CPU has a default TDP of 45W that can be configured up to 54W and since ASUS’s ROG Zephyrus laptops are high-end designs with improved cooling solutions, we can expect to see the highest TDP on these laptops.

The AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS APU also features the Radeon 780M “RDNA 3” iGPU with 12 compute units clocked at 2800 MHz. While this iGPU offers competitive performance against Intel’s Arc Xe-LPG iGPU, ASUS will be offering the ROG Zephyrus G14 with a discrete graphics solution as its primary GPU solution. We can expect some high-end configurations such as NVIDIA’s RTX 40 series. The laptop was configured with 32 GB of DDR5 memory which is most probably clocked at 5600 MT/s speeds.

In terms of performance, the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop with AMD’s Ryzen 9 8945HS “Hawk Point” APU is right where we expect this to perform. The multi-core score puts it on par with the Ryzen 7 7745HX and 14-core Core Ultra 7 155H CPUs. The single-core score is a bit low but that’s something that can improve in the final retail model with proper firmware. In terms of price, expect the G14 to cost somewhere around $1500-$2000 US with the higher-end RTX configurations costing extra.