The performance of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 9 7845HX far exceeds that of its predecessor, show leaked results.
As a 12-core, 24-thread beast, it has a maximum clock speed of 5.2GHz and a TDP that can go above 55 watts.
The CPU will soon be found in laptops such as the Alienware M16/M18 or the Lenovo Legion. It’s not quite the best processor in the lineup — that title belongs to the Ryzen 9 7945HX with 16 cores and 32 threads.
Regardless, both chips are said to be quite powerful, and they have the highest core counts ever seen in an AMD laptop chip.
Ryzen 9 7845HX reigns supreme with a whopping 46,791 points in the multi-core test and 4,003 points in single-core. This makes it 90% faster in multi-threaded tasks and 17% faster in single-core operations compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HX.
The upcoming Ryzen 7040 APU was tested by 3DMark Time Spy which showed off some rather surprising graphics performance thanks to the updated RDNA 3 technology.
It’s equipped with 768 shader cores and can hit clock speeds of up to 2.9GHz in boost mode. That makes it better than the GPU found in the Steam Deck, which belongs to the last-gen RDNA 2 family and sports 512 shader cores.
If you want a balanced and lightweight device, it seems that the use of RDNA 3 graphics gave the Ryzen 7040 a huge boost that might make it more than adequate for some less-demanding games.
The Ryzen 9 7845HX makes a strong alternative for laptops entirely meant for gaming. However, Intel might give competition to both lineups soon.
