It isn't Zen 5 yet, but with Zen 4, 5nm process tech, and up to 16 cores, it’s nothing to sniff at.
The refreshed chips include the 16-core Ryzen 9 8945HX and 8940HX, 12-core Ryzen 7 8840HX, and 8-core 8745HX. AMD is promising top-tier performance with power efficiency baked in, targeting gamers and creators who demand serious mobile power.
The flagship Ryzen 9 8945HX clocks up to 5.4 GHz with 80MB of cache and a TDP range of 55–75W. That’s desktop-class grunt in a laptop chassis, built for AAA gaming, content creation, and mad multitasking.
Despite being a refresh, this lineup has some proper teeth — DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and integrated RDNA 2 Radeon 610M graphics for basic gaming and display duty.
AMD claims the 8000HX family will offer the best bang-for-buck in the high-end gaming laptop sector in 2025, especially as rivals sweat over tariffs and node transitions. That said, the real beast is still waiting in the wings — AMD’s Ryzen 9000HX “Fire Range” with Zen 5 cores and a 3D V-Cache variant built to run alongside Nvidia’s RTX 5080 and 5090.
AMD Ryzen 9000HX & 8000HX CPU Lineup For Laptops:
|
CPU Name |
Architecture |
Cores / Threads |
Base / Boost Clock |
Cache |
TDP |
|
Ryzen 9 9955HX3D |
Zen 5 |
16 / 32 |
2.5 / 5.4 GHz |
144 MB |
55-75W |
|
Ryzen 9 9955HX |
Zen 5 |
16 / 32 |
2.5 / 5.4 GHz |
80 MB |
55-75W |
|
Ryzen 9 9850HX |
Zen 5 |
12 / 24 |
3.0 / 5.2 GHz |
76 MB |
45-75W |
|
Ryzen 9 8945HX |
Zen 4 |
16 / 32 |
2.5 / 5.4 GHz |
80 MB |
55-75W |
|
Ryzen 9 8940HX |
Zen 4 |
16 / 32 |
2.4 / 5.3 GHz |
80 MB |
55-75W |
|
Ryzen 7 8840HX |
Zen 4 |
12 / 24 |
2.9 / 5.1 GHz |
76 MB |
45-75W |
|
Ryzen 7 8745HX |
Zen 4 |
8 / 16 |
3.6 / 5.1 GHz |
40 MB |
45-75W |
