Upcoming high-performance laptops will leverage AMD’s Ryzen 7045 series (codenamed Dragon Range) portfolio. The Ryzen 7 7745HX benchmarks have been revealed, suggesting that these AMD powered mobile he powerhouses will hit retail shelves soon.
In case you missed AMD’s CES 2023 announcement, the Dragon Range is the first AMD mobile processor to utilize AMD’s chiplet architecture. TSMC manufactures these chips for AMD on a 5nm FinFET manufacturing process. The 5nm processor will feature the latest Zen 4 cores with configurations of up to 16 cores and 32 threads. Meticulously, the specs match AMD’s desktop Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) processors. It’s no coincidence either.
AMD ported the chiplet design from Ryzen 7000 to the Dragon Range, but shrunk the overall landscape to a smaller BGA package that’s more friendly to mobile devices. Sadly, Dragon Range will use his RDNA 2 graphics, but the iGPU is only present for light workloads so that’s fine. Dragon Range is geared towards high-performance gaming laptops, so vendors will likely pair Zen 4 chips with mobile discrete graphics cards.
The Ryzen 7 7745HX features an 8-core, 16-thread setup with a base clock of 3.6 GHz and a boost clock that reaches 5.1 GHz. Since this is an unlocked processor, user overclocking is under consideration. There is a total of 40MB of onboard cache, 8MB from L2 cache, and 32MB from L3 cache.
The Ryzen 7 7745HX has a cTDP of 45W to 75W, which manufacturers can adjust to their needs. Dragon Range supports DDR5-5200 memory and the Ryzen 7 7745HX specifically comes with a Radeon 610M unit with his two RDNA 2 CUs topping out at 2,200 MHz.
Ryzen 7 7745HX Benchmark
| processor | Cinebench R23 Single Core | Cinebench R23 Multicore |
|---|---|---|
| Core i9-13900HX | 2,043 | 30,162 |
| Core i9-12900HX | 1,912 | 23,150 |
| Ryzen 7 7745HX | 1,828 | 18,606 |
| Core i9-12900HK | 1,789 | 18,621 |
| Apple M2 Max | 1,625 | 14,767 |
| Risen 9 6900HX | 1,570 | 14,085 |
a Bilibili Content Creator (opens in new tab) I have shared the Cinebench R23 benchmark of the Ryzen 7 7745HX. We didn’t disclose the laptops our users were using or the testing conditions, so approach the results with caution. He only confirmed that the chip is consuming about 95W. AMD has confirmed that vendors are free to supply up to 100W for the Dragon Range. Cinebench R23 results showing for equivalent processors are: Notebookcheck database (opens in new tab)so credit is given to them for providing the score.
The Ryzen 7 7745HX showed 16% and 32% higher single-core and multi-core performance than the Ryzen 9 6900HX (8C/16T) respectively. The octa-core Zen 4 chip also outperforms Apple’s M2 Max (12C/12T) by 12% in single-core performance and 26% in multi-core performance. However, the performance of the Ryzen 7 7745X was almost identical to the Core i9-12900HK (14C/20T). AMD’s chip had a 2% improvement in single-core performance, but multi-core performance was equally fast on both chips.
However, the Ryzen 7 7745HX didn’t match the previous Core i9-12900HX (16C/24T) or the latest Core i9-13900HX (24C/32T). The Core i9-12900HX outperformed the Ryzen 7 7745HX in single-core and multi-core performance by 5% and 24% margins respectively. On the other hand, the Core i9-13900HX’s single-core score is 12% higher than the Ryzen 7 7745HX, and its multi-core score is up to 62% higher. The Core i9-12900HX and Core i9-13900HX had the advantage because they use more cores. However, the Ryzen 9 7845HX (12C/24T) or Ryzen 9 7945HX (16C/32T) are likely to match Intel’s chips.
