Tech Reviewer ETA PRIME Tests ASUS TUF A15 Laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU and Radeon 780M RDNA 3 iGPU
Tech reviewer ETA PRIME recently got their hands on the ASUS TUF A15 laptop, which is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS APU and the Radeon 780M RDNA 3 iGPU. They ran some benchmarks on the integrated graphics card and found that it is capable of delivering playable framerates in some popular games at 1080p resolution.
The Ryzen 9 7940HS is an 8-core/16-thread Zen 4 APU with a base clock of 4.0 GHz and a maximum boost clock of 5.2 GHz. It features the Radeon 780M RDNA 3 iGPU with 12 CUs (768 stream processors) working at 2800 MHz. The APU in the ASUS TUF A15 laptop was paired up with 32 GB of DDR5-5600 memory. The system also comes with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU, but the review was focused on the AMD Radeon 780M.
In 3DMark Fire Strike and Time Spy benchmark, the Radeon 780M GPU was 12 and 15 percent faster than the Radeon 680M, despite the other system being equipped with faster LPDDR5 memory. ETA PRIME noted that the early driver was not ready and did crash in some games, so the performance could be even higher when the official driver is released.
ETA PRIME benchmarked a couple of popular games with the CPU limited to 80 W, resulting in playable framerates in most of the games at 1080p and medium to high graphics settings. The system was tested in Performance Mode set via ASUS Armory Crate software. According to ETA PRIME, the integrated GPU was easily overclocked up to 3 GHz, and it would crash at 3.25 GHz, which shows great promise and might be more stable with the final launch driver.
Benchmark Results:
- CSGO (1080p High): 130 FPS
- GTA (1080p Very High): 81 FPS
- Forza Horizon 5 (1080p High): 86 FPS
- Fortnite (1080p Medium): 78 FPS
- Doom Eternal (1080p Medium): 83 FPS
- Horizon Zero Dawn (1080p Favor Performance): 69 FPS
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare (1080p Recommended/FSR Perf.): 106 FPS
- Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p Medium/Low Mix): ~70 FPS
