AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 7945HX "Dragon Range" CPU has been tested within Geekbench 5 and it offers some really impressive laptop performance figures.

AMD's Flagship Dragon Range CPU For Laptops, The Ryzen 9 7945HX, Has Been Tested Within Geekbench, Faster Than Desktop 7900X

The Ryzen 9 7945HX is going to be AMD's fastest laptop chip ever made. It will rock the 5nm Zen 4 core architecture and offer a total of 16 cores and 32 threads, the same as the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU from the desktop lineup. These 16 cores will be running at a base frequency of 2.5 GHz and boost up to 5.4 GHz which is highly impressive for a mobility part. The CPU comes with 80 MB of cache & also offers a TDP range of 55-75W+. As further icing on the cake, AMD enables overclocking across its entire Dragon Range lineup which would make for some really powerful laptops.

As for the performance, the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU was tested within the Geekbench 5 bench and scored 2127 points in single-core and 19,403 points in multi-core. The chip was running on a ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 laptop with 32 GB of DDR5-4800 memory in the performance mode.

The single-core performance of the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX is on par with AMD's high-end Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs whereas the multi-core score is faster than the Ryzen 9 7900X desktop chip. Now the desktop chip does have lower cores (12 vs 16) but it has a higher TDP to work with and a higher all-core boost too.

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX Multi-Thread CPU Benchmark (Geekbench 5)

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Core i9-13900KS 26.8k

Core i9-13900K 24.3k

Ryzen 9 7950X 24.4k

Ryzen 9 7950X3D 21.8k

Core i9-13900HX 20.9k

Core i9-13900 20.1k

Core i7-13700K 19.8k

Ryzen 9 7945HX 19.4k

Ryzen 9 7900X 19.3k

Core i9-12900KS 19k

Ryzen 9 7900 18.6k

Core i9-13900T 17.3k

Core i9-12900K 17.3k

Ryzen 9 5950X 16.5k

Core i5-13600K 16.1k

M2 Max 14.6k

Core i7-12700K 14.1k

Ryzen 7 7700X 14.1k

Ryzen 9 5900X 14k

Ryzen 7 7700 12.7k

M1 Max 12.3k

Core i5-12600K 11.6k

Ryzen 5 7600X 11.4k

Ryzen 5 7600 11.3k

Ryzen 7 5800X 10.3k

Ryzen 5 5600X 8.2k

Of course, power and thermals play a huge role in making or breaking a mobile chip and AMD has so far shown the lead in terms of efficiency with its Zen 4 core architecture. The first AMD Ryzen 7045 "Dragon Range" laptops are expected to land in the coming days so stay tuned for detailed reviews.

AMD Ryzen 7045 "Dragon Range" Laptop CPUs: