According to AMD’s latest marketing materials, the Ryzen 7045 series (Dragon Range) and Ryzen 7035 series (Rembrandt-R) will be faster than Intel’s 12th Gen Alder Lake chips. Dragon Range (Zen 4, RDNA 2) is almost 2x faster than Alder Lake HX, while Rembrandt-R (Zen 3+, RDNA 2) offers more than 2x the performance of Alder Lake-P.
It seems odd that AMD would be comparing its next-gen processors to Intel’s last-generation parts, Alder Lake, rather than its latest 13th Gen Raptor Lake chips. However, the docs show that AMD did his December 2022 testing. So it’s possible that the chip maker didn’t have access to laptops with Raptor Lake. And of course, if updated tests on a Raptor Lake laptop change the story, why not skip them?
As for the test environment, the Dragon Range laptop used DDR5-5200 memory and the Raptor Lake laptop used DDR5-4800 memory. This is the default memory specification for both microarchitectures. Either way, throw some salt on these vendor-provided benchmarks.
Billed by AMD as “the world’s most powerful mobile processor”, the Ryzen 9 7945HX is the Dragon Range’s flagship SKU. The Ryzen 9 7945HX offers 18% to 169% better performance than the Core i9-12900HX in AMD’s tests. Multi-core performance is the strength of the Ryzen 9 7945HX. However, in single-core performance, the Ryzen 9 7945HX is only 2% faster than the Core i9-12900HX (Cinebench R23 1T).
In terms of generational improvement, the Ryzen 9 7945HX offers 41% to 211% more performance than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. It’s clear that the former Zen 4 cores will offer a significant performance boost over the previous generation chips. Additionally, consumers can experience up to 22% and 123% improvement (measured by Cinebench R23) for single-core and multi-core respectively.
If you care about integrated graphics performance, the Ryzen 9 7945HX is significantly faster than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. At lower settings, AMD measured a 29% to 62% improvement at 1080p. The Ryzen 9 7945HX has a Radeon 610M with 2 RDNA 2 CUs clocked at up to 2.2 GHz while the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a Radeon 680M with 12 RDNA CUs at up to 2.4 GHz. . The Ryzen 9 7945HX has an inferior iGPU, so the higher gaming performance comes from the Dragon Range’s Zen 4 cores rather than the graphics unit.
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Consumers can expect superior performance across the Dragon Range stack compared to Alder Lake. It’s interesting that AMD chose Intel chips for the rest of the comparison. The company uses the Core i9-12900HX in contrast, but prefers to compare the Ryzen 7 7745HX and Ryzen 5 7645HX to the Core i7-12700H and Core i5-12500H respectively. AMD could have easily gone with the Core i7-12650HX or the Core i5-12600HX.
According to AMD, the Ryzen 7 7745HX outperforms the Core i7-12700H by up to 6% in single-core workloads and up to 25% in multi-core workloads. On the other hand, the Ryzen 5 7645HX is faster than the Core i5-12500H with 7% better single-core performance and 9% better multi-core performance.
Strangely, AMD doesn’t provide benchmark results for the Ryzen 9 7845HX, a 12-core, 24-thread Dragon Range chip. However, the chipmaker has rated the Ryzen 9 7845HX as a direct competitor to Intel’s Core i9-12900HX, similar to the Ryzen 9 7945HX.
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The Ryzen 7035 series is a reheated chip with Zen 3+ cores and RDNA 2 graphics aimed at premium thin and light laptops. These are AMD’s HS-series and U-series parts that might not have great performance, but they have great battery life.
AMD claims the Ryzen 7 7735U will offer up to 87% faster overall performance than Intel’s Core i7-1270P. Chip maker results revealed productivity gains of up to 72% and digital content creation performance improvements of up to 33%. Individual benchmark results show a 17% to 240% higher performance margin than the Core i7-1270P.
The Ryzen 7 7735U also outperforms the Core i7-1280P in integrated graphics performance. Given AMD’s expertise in the integrated graphics space, you can’t rest easy otherwise.The Ryzen 7 7735U delivers 44% higher 1080p gaming performance than the Core i7-1280P. Additionally, the RDNA 2 based processor boasts a 15% to 108% higher performance margin than the Core i7-1280P across 10 different titles.
AMD positions the Ryzen 5 7535U against the Core i5-1250P. The chipmaker has rated the Ryzen 5 7535U for 75% better overall performance, 58% more productivity, and 8% faster digital content creation. Additionally, in eight different benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7535U outperformed the Core i5-1250P by 11% to 229%, depending on the nature of the workload.
The first gaming laptops with Dragon Range are launching this month. So far, we know of Alienware m16 and m18, Asus Strix and Lenovo Legion devices leveraging AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 7495HX processor. Expect more announcements in the coming weeks.
