When it comes to pure and raw gaming performance, AMD stands on top thanks to their Ryzen 7000 X3D lineup of processors. These special silicon feature their 3D V-Cache technology, allowing them to pack large amounts of L3 cache onto these processors for better performance in gaming. AMD is now bringing that same technology to the laptop scene with the new AMD Ryzen 9 7945X3D.
Along with its mouthful of a name, the Ryzen 9 7945Hx3D is a 16-core, 32-thread processor built on the 5nm process and is based on the Zen 4 architecture. These cores run at a 2.3GHz base frequency and boosts as high as 5.4GHz, while for its integrated graphics it has an RDNA2-based Radeon 610M. It also gets a 144MB of cache with 128MB of it being L3 cache, double the amount found on the Ryzen 9 7945HX that sits before it on the product stack. The Ryzen 0 7945HX3D is also rated for a 55W to 75W TDP.
According to AMD, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D is the world’s fastest mobile gaming processor, with it being over 15% faster than the Ryzen 7945HX on average. Granted, this was done by testing games in 1080p with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 laptop graphics card; had AMD done their testing in higher resolutions like 4K that increase in performance will likely be slightly lower.
As for when you’ll actually be able to get your hands on a laptop with a Ryzen 9 7945HX3D in it, AMD says that Asus is set to launch the ROG Strix Scar 17 X3D featuring the new ‘ultimate gaming processor’ on 22 August, though local availability and pricing remains to be seen.
