How to unleash all the power of the Ryzen 9 7950X with a 55W TDP?
AMD unveiled a new family of mobile processors, the Dragon Range, at CEX earlier this year. The Ryzen 9 7945HX is one of the more impressive examples. It’s based on the Zen 4 chiplet, with 16 cores/32 threads running at 2.5 GHz base and 5.4 GHz boost, but with a TDP of over 55 W, including an onboard AMD 610M GPU with RDNA2 technology. is advertised. To test how effective this chip is, KitGuru put the 2023 Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 G733PY gaming laptop through various CPU tests.
While the CPU itself peaked at less than 100W in our tests, it outperformed Intel’s 12th Gen mobile parts in many tests. There are also some gaming tests that outperform the i9-12900K, but to be fair this has a lot more to do with his RTX 4090 than the Ryzen 9 7945HX. AMD’s claimed power consumption is certainly accurate, with Vcore between 1.2V and 1.3V, it draws less power than its desktop counterparts and still manages to deliver comparable performance.
If you’re looking for a production laptop that runs software that benefits from a powerful CPU, the Ryzen 9 7945HX based laptop offers that performance while consuming relatively little power.
