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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
AMD's desktop-derived bruiser: 16 Zen 4 cores and 64MB of L3 gave it the best sustained rendering throughput of its generation, regularly beating Intel's pricier HX flagships while pulling meaningfully less power.
Pros
- 16 Zen 4 cores led 2023 rendering throughput
- Huge 64MB L3 cache
- Better performance per watt than Intel HX
- Overclockable in enthusiast designs
- Aggressively priced against the i9 HX
Cons
- Weak Radeon 610M iGPU needs a discrete card
- No NPU
- Confined to thick gaming and workstation chassis
Good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
General
- Announced
- 2023
- Process
- 5 nm
- Base TDP
- 55 W
- Max TDP
- 75 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 16
- Performance cores
- 16
- Threads
- 32
- Base clock
- 2.5 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.4 GHz
- L3 cache
- 64 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon 610M
- iGPU clock
- 2,200 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR5-5200
- Max memory
- 64 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,900
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 17,200
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,030
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 34,100
- PassMark
- 53,000
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX earns an Inno Score of 66.1/100 (“Good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. AMD's desktop-derived bruiser: 16 Zen 4 cores and 64MB of L3 gave it the best sustained rendering throughput of its generation, regularly beating Intel's pricier HX flagships while pulling meaningfully less power.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX?
Cores: 16 · Threads: 32 · Boost clock: 5.4 GHz · Base TDP: 55 W
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, Intel Core Ultra 9 285H, Apple M4 (10-core) — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
