ASUS's upcoming ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop powered by AMD's top-end HawkPoint APU (Ryzen 98945HS) has been exposed on Geekbench. AMD Ryzen 8040 "HawkPoint" APU was released earlier this month and is expected to be available in February 2024. Most of these laptops will retain the same specifications as the current Ryzen7040 "Phoenix" APU, but will be equipped with an upgraded version of the XDNA "RyzenAI" NPU, providing up to 16TOPs of processing power.
Talking about the specifications of the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop, this model is the direct successor of the current model and has the designation "GA403UV_00093645C". This laptop uses AMD Ryzen98945HSAPU, based on Zen4 core architecture, with 8 cores, 16 threads, 5.2GHz main frequency and 16MB L3 cache. The CPU has a default TDP of 45W and can be pulled up to 54W, and since ASUS's ROG Zephyrus laptops feature a high-end design and improved cooling solutions, we can expect to see it achieve the highest TDP on these laptops.
AMD Ryzen 98945HSAPU is also equipped with Radeon 780M "RDNA3" iGPU, which has 12 computing units and a clock frequency of 2800MHz. While the performance of this iGPU is comparable to Intel's ArcXe-LPGi GPU, ASUS will offer a discrete graphics solution for the ROG Zephyrus G14 as its primary GPU solution. We can expect some high-end configurations like NVIDIA's RTX40 series. The laptop is equipped with 32GB DDR5 memory, and its clock frequency may be 5600MT/s.
In terms of performance, the performance of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop equipped with AMD Ryzen98945HS "HawkPoint" APU is in line with our expectations. Its multi-core performance is comparable to Ryzen77745HX and 14-core Core Ultra7155HCPU. Single-core scores are relatively low, but could be improved with appropriate firmware on final retail models. In terms of price, the G14 is expected to cost around US$1,500 to US$2,000, and the price will be higher if paired with a higher-end RTX graphics card configuration.