AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
- Cores: 6
- L3 cache: 16MB (shared)
- TDP: 15-30 W
- Transistor size: 4 nm
Ryzen 5 8540U - laptop processor produced by Amd for socket FP7 that has 6 cores and 12 threads. The base clock frequency of the CPU is 3700 MHz, but due to Turbo Core technology, it can perform up to 4900 MHz. The size of the L3 cache is 16 MB. Please note that this chip has integrated graphics Radeon 740M.
Review
Compare AMD Ryzen 5 8540U with other CPUs
Test in Benchmarks
Performance test of AMD Ryzen 5 8540U in benchmarksCinebench
GeekBench v6
| File compression | 1010 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 62.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 179.9 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 226.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 247.2 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 42.7 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 74.8 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 13.7 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
| Integer math | 57.3 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 35 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 68M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 24.7M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 12.2 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 207.6 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 997 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 15B Matrices/sec |
Blender
Performance Per Watt
| Cinebench 2024 / Watt | 18.9 PPW |
| Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt | 305.8 PPW |
| Passmark CPU Mark / Watt | 609.6 PPW |
| Blender / Watt | 4.12 PPW |
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.
Specifications
Ryzen 5 8540U technical specificationsGeneral
| Vendor | Amd |
| Released | December 6, 2023 |
| Type | Laptop |
| Instruction Set | x86-64 |
| Codename | Zen 4 (Hawk Point) |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon 740M |
| Intel Equivalent | - Intel Core Ultra 5 125U |
| Successor | - AMD Ryzen 5 230 |
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking - 94th place
CPU
| P-Cores | 2 |
| P-Threads | 4 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.7 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.9 GHz |
| E-Cores | 4 |
| E-Threads | 8 |
| Base Frequency (E) | 3 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (E) | 3.7 GHz |
| Total Cores | 6 |
| Total Threads | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 37x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 1MB (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No |
Package
| Transistors | 20.9 billions |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 15-30 W (configurable) |
| Socket | FP7 |
| Peak Temperature | 100°C |
Laptop processors ranking - 169th place
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | Radeon 740M |
| GPU Base Clock | 800 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 2800 MHz |
| Shading Units | 256 |
| TMUs | 16 |
| ROPs | 8 |
| Execution Units | 4 |
| TGP | 15 W |
See also: Radeon 740M – integrated graphics of AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
Memory Support
| Memory Types | - DDR5-5600 - LPDDR5x-7500 |
| Max. Memory Size | 256 GB |
| Memory Channels | 2 |
| ECC Support | No |
Misc
| Official Site | AMD Ryzen 5 8540U official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 14 |
| Technologies | - Compute: AVX-512, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, SHA
- Performance: Precision Boost 2, SMT
- Virtualization: AMD-V
- Security: EVP, NX-Bit, SMAP, SMEP |