AMD releases Ryzen 7045HX laptop processor with up to sixteen Zen 4 cores

AMD has released its Ryzen 7045HX processors for laptops. They are the company’s first laptop CPUs based on chiplets and contain more than eight cores. AMD announced the CPUs at the beginning of this year, but did not specify a specific release date.

AMD reports that laptop OEMs will ship models with Ryzen 7045HX processor from now on. The first of these have now also appeared in the Pricewatch. ASUS has some laptops with Ryzen 7045HX chip, including in the Zephyrus series. The cheapest of these features a Ryzen 9 7845HX with twelve Zen 4 cores and currently costs € 1,999. According to AMD, laptops from Dell, Lenovo and MSI will also appear soon.

The Ryzen 7045HX series, also known as Dragon Range, was announced in January. These CPUs are based on the Ryzen 7000 processors for desktops. These are AMD’s first laptop CPUs that consist of chiplets. The Ryzen 7045HX chips come with up to sixteen cores and up to 64MB of L3 cache. The CPUs are based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture and are produced at TSMC at 5nm.

AMD comes with four different Dragon Range models, which come with six, eight, twelve or sixteen cores. The top model in the series is the Ryzen 9 7945HX, which according to AMD performs on average ten percent better in games than Intel’s new Core i9 13900HX laptop processor. However, no independent reviews of the CPUs have yet been published. AMD says the first laptops with the processors will ship to reviewers this month.