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Rate My PC: AMD Ryzen 3 8440U + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

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AMD Ryzen 3 8440U

16,663 Benchmark Score

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

22,729 Benchmark Score

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The pairing of AMD's Ryzen 3 8440U with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile is an unusual one for a benchmark database to dwell on, and that is exactly why it rewards close inspection. On paper, this is a laptop build (buildClass: laptop) that mates a modest, efficiency-focused four-core Zen 4 processor with a GPU whose average benchmark score places it within striking distance of an RTX 2080. The combined percentile of 69 suggests a machine that sits firmly in the upper third of all tracked systems, yet the individual components tell a story of asymmetry: a GPU ranked at the 67th percentile of all GPUs paired with a CPU ranked at the 70th percentile of all CPUs. Those two percentiles look symmetric until you notice that the CPU's nearest rivals are other low-power ultrabook chips while the GPU's rivals are mainstream desktop graphics cards. What emerges is a machine where the graphics hardware substantially outclasses the processor it is attached to — and the data invites questions about what that imbalance means in practice.

CPU Analysis

The Ryzen 3 8440U is a Hawk Point chip built on TSMC's 4 nm process, carrying 20,900 million transistors on a 137 mm² die. It offers 4 cores and 8 threads on the Zen 4 architecture, with a base clock of 3.00 GHz and a boost clock of 4.70 GHz. The TDP is 28 W, the socket is AMD Socket FP7, and the market segment is explicitly mobile — this is a silicon designed for thin-and-light machines, not desktops. Cache is modest: 64 KB of L1 and 1 MB of L2 per core, with 8 MB of shared L3. Memory support is DDR5 on a dual-channel bus delivering 89.6 GB/s of bandwidth, and the chip exposes PCIe Gen 4 with 14 CPU lanes. There is no ECC support and the multiplier is locked. The integrated graphics is a Radeon 740M, which matters here mostly as a fallback: in this pairing, the RTX 4060 Mobile is clearly intended to carry the rendering load.

The benchmark picture is consistent across suites. Cinebench R15 returns 1097 multi-core and 154 single-core; Cinebench R20 returns 4571 and 645; Cinebench R23 returns 10884 and 1536. The single-core figures are respectable for a mobile part — a 1536 in R23 single-core indicates that lightly threaded applications will feel snappy, and that per-thread responsiveness is not the weak point. The multi-core scores are where the four-core ceiling shows. PassMark multithread lands at 12805, single-thread at 3648, and the overall average benchmark score is 16663, placing the chip at the 70th percentile versus all CPUs in the database.

The nearest-rivals list frames that score precisely. The Intel Core Ultra 5 115U averages 16753 (deltaPct -0.5 relative to the 8440U), the Core i5-1235U averages 16770 (-0.6), the Ryzen 3 7335U averages 16827 (-1), and the Core i3-12100E averages 16853 (-1.1). In other words, the 8440U trades blows with a cluster of entry-level mobile and efficient desktop chips, sitting within roughly one percent of all of them. It is a hair behind each of these rivals on aggregate, but the gaps are small enough that the ranking is effectively a tie. What this means for real workloads: applications that scale across many cores — heavy code compilation, multi-pass video encodes, large scene renders — will hit the four-core wall quickly, while typical office, web, and lightly threaded creative work will run comfortably.

The granular PassMark subtests reinforce that reading. Integer math scores 37468, floating point 23017, data compression 146273, encryption 8012, extended instructions 11059, random string sorting 17725, and physics 685. The find-prime-numbers result of 43 is a reminder that sustained, tightly threaded compute is not this chip's natural habitat. None of these numbers are alarming for the class; they simply describe a processor engineered for efficiency and everyday responsiveness rather than throughput.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: Here the CPU is the constraint, not the GPU. A PassMark single-thread score of 3648 and an R23 single-core of 1536 will deliver smooth frame delivery in most titles, but in CPU-bound competitive games at low resolutions — where the GPU is barely stressed — the four-core, eight-thread configuration limits how high frame rates can climb. The RTX 4060 Mobile will frequently be waiting on the processor.

Streaming: Streaming while gaming splits the workload, and with 8 threads total, that split gets crowded. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10884 shows there is some headroom for a background encode, but game plus stream plus chat overlays will press against the same four cores. Hardware encoding on the GPU side of the pairing is the pragmatic route.

Video editing: Timeline scrubbing and basic edits will feel responsive thanks to the strong single-core numbers and the GPU's compute benchmark of 6816 in PassMark GPU compute. Final exports, however, are multi-core bound, and an R23 multi-core of 10884 puts a ceiling on render throughput. Occasional editing: comfortable. Daily 4K production work: limiting.

3D rendering: The Geekbench OpenCL score of 89420 and Vulkan score of 89569 indicate the GPU can accelerate viewport work and GPU-native renderers meaningfully. But pure CPU rendering leans on those 4 cores and 8 MB of L3, and the multi-core scores show it. This is a viewport-and-iterate machine, not a final-frame farm.

Software development: A PassMark single-thread score of 3648 makes editor interactions and incremental builds pleasant. Full clean builds of large projects will feel the multi-core ceiling, but for typical application development, scripting, and containerized services on a laptop, the 8440U's profile is well matched.

Student and office work: This is the CPU's home turf. Strong per-thread performance, dual-channel DDR5 at 89.6 GB/s, and an efficiency-focused 28 W TDP describe a machine that handles documents, browser tabs, video calls, and lectures without complaint — with a GPU that vastly exceeds what those tasks require.

GPU Analysis

The GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile is an AD107 chip on TSMC's 5 nm node, packing 18,900 million transistors into a 159 mm² die at a density of 118.9M per mm². The architecture is Ada Lovelace, with DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6 support. The spec sheet is genuinely mid-range-mainstream, not entry-level: 3072 shading units, 96 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 24 RT cores, and 96 tensor cores. The pixel rate is 90.72 GPixel/s, the texture rate 181.4 GTexel/s, and FP32 throughput is 11.61 TFLOPS, with FP16 at a 1:1 ratio of 11.61 TFLOPS.

Memory is 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, with memory clocked at 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) for 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. Clocks are 1545 MHz base and 1890 MHz boost, the bus interface is PCIe 4.0 x8, and the TDP is 115 W. Those RT and tensor core counts deserve attention: 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores mean ray-traced effects and AI-accelerated upscaling are genuine capabilities of this silicon, not checkbox features.

The benchmark scores place the card meaningfully above its "mobile" label might suggest. PassMark G3D comes in at 17469, and the average benchmark score of 22729 puts it at the 67th percentile versus all GPUs. The rivals list is the most striking data point: the RTX 2080 averages 22895 (deltaPct -0.7 relative to this card), the Radeon RX 7700 XT averages 22549 (+0.8), the Arc B580 averages 23021 (-1.3), and the RTX 5060 Mobile averages 22435 (+1.3). That the mobile 4060 sits within 1.3 percent of a next-generation 5060 Mobile and effectively level with a desktop-class RX 7700 XT and a Turing-era flagship says a great deal. This is desktop-adjacent GPU performance delivered at 115 W.

For rendering work, the Geekbench OpenCL score of 89420 and Vulkan score of 89569 are nearly identical, indicating consistent API performance regardless of compute path. The DirectX subtest scores (PassMark DirectX 9: 216, DirectX 10: 107, DirectX 11: 157, DirectX 12: 73) describe a card whose relative advantage grows with modern API complexity — exactly where its RT and tensor hardware can be exercised. The 8 GB VRAM buffer and 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth are the practical limits: at high resolutions with ray tracing and high-resolution textures, that buffer will be the first spec to feel pressure.

Balance and Bottleneck

The combined percentile of 69 hides an interesting internal tension. The CPU sits at the 70th percentile of all CPUs and the GPU at the 67th percentile of all GPUs — numerically close, but the populations being ranked differ enormously. The CPU's rivals are all low-power mobile and entry desktop chips; the GPU's rivals include desktop cards. In practice, this pairing is GPU-forward: the RTX 4060 Mobile brings desktop-class throughput while the 8440U brings ultrabook-class thread count.

The bottleneck direction depends entirely on resolution and workload. At 1080p and below, in games and applications that lean on the CPU, the 4-core/8-thread configuration and its 12805 PassMark multithread score will be the limiter — the GPU's 11.61 TFLOPS will be underfed. As resolution and GPU-side workload rise (1440p, ray tracing, higher texture detail), the balance shifts and the GPU becomes the constraint, with its 8 GB VRAM likely the first wall. The PCIe 4.0 x8 interface is a further nuance: narrower than a full x16 link, it can add pressure when VRAM overflows, though the database does not include measured transfer figures to quantify that here.

There is no measured FPS data for this exact combination — the FACT PACK contains no measuredFps entries — so all frame-rate discussion here is estimated from the benchmark scores rather than measured. Within that caveat, the PassMark physics score of 685 for the CPU and the G3D score of 17469 for the GPU together describe a system that will typically be GPU-limited at higher settings and CPU-limited at competitive settings.

FAQ

Q: Is the CPU or the GPU the stronger component in this pairing?

A: Relative to its peers, the GPU. The RTX 4060 Mobile benchmarks within 1.3 percent of desktop-class rivals like the Radeon RX 7700 XT (avgScore 22549) and Arc B580 (avgScore 23021), while the Ryzen 3 8440U sits in a cluster of entry-level mobile chips, within roughly one percent of the Core Ultra 5 115U and Core i5-1235U.

Q: How much memory bandwidth does each component have?

A: The CPU's dual-channel DDR5 support provides 89.6 GB/s; the GPU's GDDR6 provides 256.0 GB/s across a 128-bit bus.

Q: Can this system do ray tracing and AI-accelerated upscaling?

A: Yes. The GPU has 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores with DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) support, and Vulkan 1.4, so ray-traced rendering and tensor workloads are hardware-accelerated.

Q: Is the CPU multiplier unlocked for overclocking?

A: No. The multiplierUnlocked field is false, and as a 28 W mobile FP7 part there is no tuning headroom by design.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its closest rival overall?

A: Against the Intel Core Ultra 5 115U (avgScore 16753), the 8440U (avgScore 16663) trails by 0.5 percent — effectively a statistical tie across the tracked benchmarks.

Q: What generation of PCIe does each part support?

A: The CPU exposes PCIe Gen 4 with 14 lanes; the GPU connects via PCIe 4.0 x8, so the link is fully Gen 4 but eight lanes wide.

Q: Is 8 GB of VRAM enough?

A: The data frames it as the limiting spec at high settings: the card's compute and raster benchmarks rival desktop parts, but the 8 GB GDDR6 buffer at 256.0 GB/s is the first resource likely to saturate in demanding modern titles at elevated settings.

Who Should Build It

Because this is a laptop-class pairing (buildClass: laptop), "building" here means choosing a machine that ships with this combination. The data points to several audiences. First, students and general users who want heavy headroom: the strong single-thread scores (3648 PassMark, 1536 R23) cover everyday work superbly, and the GPU is massive overkill for it — which means long-term relevance. Second, gamers who play at 1080p where the GPU can stretch: a card benchmarking level with the RTX 2080 and RX 7700 XT can drive modern titles at high settings at that resolution, though CPU-bound scenarios will temper results. Third, entry-level content creators in photo editing, light video work, and 3D viewport work, who benefit from the 89420 Geekbench OpenCL score and 96 tensor cores. Fourth, developers wanting a responsive mobile workstation for typical application work — but not for heavy parallel compilation, given the 10884 R23 multi-core score. Small-business workstations for CAD-lite, visualization, and GPU-accelerated data tasks also fit, provided workloads respect the four-core CPU.

Benchmark Performance

The exact CPU scores: Cinebench R15 multi-core 1097, single-core 154; Cinebench R20 multi-core 4571, single-core 645; Cinebench R23 multi-core 10884, single-core 1536. PassMark CPU results: multithread 12805, single-thread 3648, physics 685, integer math 37468, floating point 23017, data compression 146273, encryption 8012, extended instructions 11059, find-prime-numbers 43, random string sorting 17725. The CPU's average benchmark score is 16663 at the 70th percentile of all CPUs.

The exact GPU scores: Geekbench OpenCL 89420, Geekbench Vulkan 89569, PassMark G3D 17469, PassMark GPU compute 6816, PassMark G2D 730, and the DirectX subtests — 216 (DX9), 107 (DX10), 157 (DX11), 73 (DX12). The GPU's average benchmark score is 22729 at the 67th percentile of all GPUs.

The combined picture is a 69th-percentile system whose strength is concentrated on the graphics side. The near-identical OpenCL and Vulkan scores, the tight clustering of GPU rivals within ±1.3 percent, and the CPU's own tight clustering within ±1.1 percent of its rivals give the dataset an unusually clean signal: both components are well-characterized, and the system's character — GPU-strong, thread-limited — is unambiguous.

Build Overview

This is a laptop-class pairing: AMD's Ryzen 3 8440U, a 4-core/8-thread Zen 4 (Hawk Point) mobile processor on TSMC 4 nm at 28 W, combined with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile, an Ada Lovelace AD107 GPU on TSMC 5 nm at 115 W with 8 GB of GDDR6. The overall tier, judged by the percentiles, is upper-mid: 70th percentile CPU, 67th percentile GPU, 69th percentile combined. It is best understood as an efficiency-oriented laptop platform with an unusually capable discrete GPU attached — the sort of configuration where the graphics silicon defines the machine's identity more than the CPU does. The integrated Radeon 740M remains available for low-power states, but any rendering workload of consequence will route to the NVIDIA chip.

Gaming Performance

No measured FPS figures exist for this exact CPU+GPU combination in the database — dataIsMeasured is false and the measuredFps record is empty. All frame-rate commentary below is therefore estimated from benchmark scores, not measured.

Working from the scores: a GPU that averages 22729 and trades places with the RTX 2080 (22895), RX 7700 XT (22549), Arc B580 (23021), and RTX 5060 Mobile (22435) should be comfortably capable of high-setting 1080p gaming in modern titles, with 1440p plausible where the 8 GB VRAM buffer and 256.0 GB/s bandwidth are not saturated. Ray tracing is on the table thanks to the 24 RT cores and 96 tensor cores, with tensor hardware available for AI-assisted upscaling to stretch the 8 GB buffer further.

The caveat is the CPU. In esports-style and CPU-bound titles at reduced settings — precisely the configurations high-refresh players use — the 8440U's 4 cores, 8 threads, and 685 physics score will cap frame delivery well below what the GPU could otherwise push. The estimated profile, then: strong GPU-limited performance at 1080p high and 1440p moderate settings, with a CPU ceiling that surfaces whenever frame rates climb into CPU-bound territory. These are estimates derived from G3D and PassMark physics data, and per-game measured figures for this specific pairing remain absent from the database.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The platform is fixed by design: Socket FP7, with no desktop-style socket migration, a locked multiplier, and a 28 W TDP envelope. CPU upgrades are therefore a matter of choosing a different laptop, not swapping this chip — though within the same generation family, a buyer prioritizing throughput would look for higher core counts and correspondingly higher multi-core scores than the 10884 R23 result recorded here.

Memory and connectivity define the realistic tuning surface. The platform supports dual-channel DDR5 at 89.6 GB/s of bandwidth; ensuring both channels are populated matters for the iGPU-less workloads routed to the CPU. PCIe is Gen 4 with 14 CPU lanes, and the GPU occupies a PCIe 4.0 x8 link — adequate, but worth noting for any future peripheral expecting a wider path. The GPU's 115 W TDP establishes the system's power envelope; the suggestedPsu field is null (expected for a laptop), and the CPU's 28 W TDP means the combined thermal budget is modest by gaming-laptop standards, which is why the pairing skews toward efficiency.

A sensible next upgrade, given the data, targets the CPU rather than the GPU: the GPU already benchmarks level with desktop-class cards, while the CPU trails even the i3-12100E's average score by 1.1 percent. A successor build holding GPU class constant while lifting thread count and multi-core throughput would resolve the one clear imbalance this dataset exposes — and would likely lift the combined percentile above 69 in the process, since the graphics side already punches at its weight.

Rate My PC: AMD Ryzen 3 8440U + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

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