AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX stands toe-to-toe with Intel’s flagship 13th-gen HX series
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The first benchmark test results for the 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX Dragon Range have been released into the wild, and the results so far are promising.
The upcoming AMD processor has been tested on Geekbench using the Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 laptop, which has 32 GB of DDR5 memory clocked at 4800 MT/s. It was revealed, according to the official Geekbench site (opens in new tab) and reported by video cardz (opens in new tab), that average CPU scores were 2061 and 18685 points in single- and multi-core tests, respectively. The highest scores were 2127 points in single-core and 19403 points in multi-core.
This puts the Ryzen 9 7945HX at the top of the mobile single-core rankings and just below the Intel 13th Gen Core i9-HX series in multi-core. This is especially impressive because the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has fewer cores than the Intel Core i9-13980HX (16 core vs 24 core), and they both have the same thread count (32 thread count).
It’s also impressive that this makes the Ryzen 9 7945HX Dragon Range more than twice as fast as the previous generation of Rembrandt chips, which makes sense since the former also has twice as many cores as the latter. The maximum clock speeds of the Ryzen 9 7945HX can also go up to 5.4 GHz at 55 watts, and the TDP can be configured for 75 watts.
AMD previously revealed the existence of the 16-core Ryzen 9 7945HX during its CES 2023 keynote.
AMD breathes Intel down the neck
Competition between Team Red and Team Blue in the mobile processor market continues to intensify, with high-end chip matchups neck-and-neck. It’s interesting to see how these leaked mobile CPU benchmarks test this generation so far, and how close these chips are in terms of performance.
If these tests continue to be favorable, it could make AMD’s Dragon Range series CPUs some of AMD’s best processors, and even the best processors overall. And if Team Red releases chips that can compete with Team Blue’s own silicon at a lower price, it would be a very favorable situation for the former.
So far, that front isn’t too shabby, as the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 refresh equipped with said CPU starts at $1,499. But hopefully we’ll see more prices as more laptops are released with both the Ryzen 9 7945HX and Core i9-13980HX.