AMD Ryzen 5 7540U: featuring 6 cores, and 12 threads

At this year’s CES 2023, AMD unveiled the Ryzen 7000 series of mobile processors, introducing the Ryzen 7045 series, codenamed “Dragon Range,” and the Ryzen 7040 series, codenamed “Phoenix Point,” both built upon the latest Zen 4 architecture. AMD initially announced three 35W-45W “HS” products within the Ryzen 7040 series, but the exact number of 15W-28W “U” products remains uncertain.

According to VideoCardz, a new APU named Ryzen 5 7540U has been discovered, featuring 6 cores, and 12 threads, and is based on Zen 4 and RDNA 3 architectures. This is the third Ryzen 7040U series APU to be revealed, with the other two being Ryzen 5 7640U and Ryzen 7 7840U. All three support dual-channel DDR5/LPDDR5 memory, PCIe 4.0, and integrate a USB4 controller.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7540U has been found in Lenovo LNVNB161216 and ASUS ROG Flow X13 laptops, displaying its GPU as Radeon 740M, though not much information is provided in the benchmark test conditions. Although it shares the same 6-core, 12-thread configuration as the Ryzen 5 7640U, the number of compute units (CU) in the integrated GPU is reduced from 8 to 6, making the Radeon 740M the lowest-tier model in the new generation of integrated GPUs. The Ryzen 5 7640U features an 8 CU Radeon 760M GPU, while the Ryzen 7 7840U sports a 12 CU Radeon 780M GPU.

AMD Ryzen 5 7540U with Radeon 740M, Source: Bepco/Nero

AMD previously announced that laptops equipped with Ryzen 7040HS series APUs would be delayed, with an expected launch in April, targeting standard gaming notebooks and high-performance ultrabooks. The Ryzen 7040U series APUs, on the other hand, differ slightly in their lower power consumption and are aimed at general ultrabooks, with related products anticipated to hit the market in May or June.