The results of a performance test that appears to have been performed on a future-generation model of the notebook line recently surfaced on Geekbench. ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14which aims to incorporate the “Hawk Point” APU. Ryzen 9 8945HS from AMD in at least one of the models, along with the more than likely presence of RTX 40 graphics from NVIDIA.

The Ryzen 9 8945HS, which is said to be implemented in the 2024 generation ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14, implements eight cores of the Zen 4 architecture, which provide a total of sixteen threads, works at a base frequency of 4 GHz and achieved speed in the maximum performance test. operating speed of 5168 MHz, in addition to the implementation of 1 MB of level 2 cache, 16 MB of level 3 cache and integrated Radeon 780M graphics based on RDNA 3. The reference TPD is 45 watts.

The ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 2024 generation and future similar laptops are expected to retain most of the specs of the Ryzen 7040HS APU series, but containing the XDNA “Ryzen AI” NPU enhanced that offers up to 16 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of computing power.

If we focus on the performance test, the equipment used implemented 32 GB of DDR5 RAM and its processor received a a score of 2,330 for single-core and 12,906 for multi-core. The operating system present was Windows 11 Pro for 64-bit with a power plan in Turbo mode, as you can read in the file available on the Geekbench website. These results put the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS more or less on par with the Ryzen 7 7745HX and Intel Core Ultra 7 155H at the processor level, with a single-core score that was a bit low, but that can possibly be fixed by updating the motherboard firmware used by the laptop.

The 2023 generation of ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 notebooks featured NVIDIA graphics in all models, and the use of a top-of-the-line APU model suggests that this won’t be cheap and affordable, but they will be. These can be attractive products for those looking for something easily portable and capable of reliably running video games and/or professional applications like DaVinci Resolve.