AMD Ryzen 7045 “Dragon Range” Enthusiast Laptop CPUs Offer Up To 52% Performance Increase Versus Intel 12th Gen Chips

The official performance benchmarks of AMD's Ryzen 7045 "Dragon Range" enthusiast laptop CPUs have been revealed against the Intel 12th Gen lineup.

AMD Compares Ryzen 7045 "Dragon Range" Laptop CPUs Against Intel's 12th Gen "Alder Lake" Chips

The AMD Ryzen 7045 "Dragon Range" CPUs will be aimed at the enthusiast-grade laptop segment. It will be the first laptop lineup from the red team to offer more than 8 cores and 16 threads along with loads of cache in a high clock and high TDP package. There are going to be a total of four CPUs within the lineup and it looks like AMD has finally shared some benchmarks which compare them against Intel's 12th Gen "Alder Lake" chips.

The performance numbers that AMD has shared are for the Ryzen 9 7945HX, Ryzen 7 7745HX, and the Ryzen 5 7645HX. The trio of CPUs was tested within Cinebench R23 single and multi-threaded workloads. For comparison, AMD used Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake chips, both HX, and H-series to show how well their new chips fare although Intel has already launched its high-end Raptor Lake-HX CPUs this month which are a direct follow-up to the 12th Gen HX/H chips tested here.

Starting off with the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, the CPU offers a 2% single and 52% multi-threaded improvement over the Intel Core i9-12900HX. That's 16 cores and 32 threads compared to 16 cores and 24 threads. Next up is the Ryzen 7 7745HX which is an 8-core and 16-thread chip that has been compared to the Core i7-12700H and offers a 6% single & 25% multi-threaded performance uplift. This is an 8-core and 16-thread chip compared to a 14-core and 20-thread chip.

Lastly, there's the Ryzen 5 7645HX which is compared to the Core i5-12500H and offers a 7% single & 9% multi-core improvement. Following are the testing footnotes from AMD (via Videocardz):

AMD Ryzen 7045 Series processors (Ryzen 9 7945HX, Ryzen 7 7745HX, Ryzen 5 7645HX parts), each configured with 32GB DDR5-5200, 1TB SSD, Windows 11, compared to the latest 12th Gen Intel Core processors: Intel Core i9-12900HX: MSI Raider GE67HX 12UHS 2x16GB DDR5-4800, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 Pro; Intel Core i7-12700H: Dell XPS 15 9520, 16GB DDR5-4800, 512GB SSD, Windows 11 Pro; Intel Core i5-12500H: Dell XPS 15 9520, 16GB DDR5-4800, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 Pro.

As for its competitive positioning charts, the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX is placed up against the Core i9-12900HX/HK CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7845HX is placed against the Core i9-12900HX, the Ryzen 7 7745HX is placed against the Core i7-12800/12700 chips while the Ryzen 5 7645HX CPU is placed against the Core i5-12600/12500 chips. While AMD is comparing against Intel's last-gen Alder Lake chips, the more interesting comparisons will come when the same parts are compared against the 13th-Gen CPUs, especially the Raptor Lake-HX parts which offer more cores, cache, and clocks than the 12th-Gen Alder Lake CPUs.

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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.

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News Source: VideoCardz