AMD Finally Reveals Its Next-Gen Gaming Laptop Chips – With Last-Gen Architecture

AMD has announced its next-generation Ryzen 8000 processors for gaming laptops, led by the Ryzen 9 8945HX. However, dissimilar the Ryzen AI 300 bid laptop chips released earlier this year, these processors are built connected the last-generation Zen 4 architecture.

Team Red is releasing 4 caller processors for high-performance gaming laptops, with the Ryzen 9 8945HX featuring 16 cores, 32 threads and boost timepiece up to 5.4GHz. On the different extremity of the spectrum, AMD is besides launching the Ryzen 7 8745HX, with 8 cores, 16 threads and a 5.1GHz boost clock. These processors each person remarkably akin specs to their last-generation counterparts, with the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX besides being a 16-core portion with a boost timepiece of 5.4GHz and 80MB of cache.

Still, these are the processors that volition beryllium paired with the fastest graphics chips successful high-end gaming laptops. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile that I reviewed earlier this twelvemonth did conflict with a lower-power AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 processor, adjacent though it was built connected the newer Zen 5 architecture. The Ryzen 9 8945HX processor, connected the different hand, tin beryllium configured to tally with anyplace from 55W to 75W, which should importantly boost performance, adjacent if that show boost would person been greater with a Zen 5 spot with the aforesaid powerfulness budget.

If you were waiting for AMD's latest processors to get a gaming laptop, they should beryllium making their mode into high-end gaming laptops implicit the adjacent fewer months. I went up and broke down the specs of the caller chips below.

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