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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)
- 2,900Top 24%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 17,200Top 18%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,030Top 21%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 34,100Top 7%
- PassMark
- 53,778Top 7%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 528Bottom 20%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX earns an Inno Score of 64.7/100 (“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.
Does the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 53,778 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier A of our CPU tier checker: current Core i7 H / Core Ultra 7 / Ryzen 7 class and above. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
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 Apple M4 (10-core), AMD Ryzen AI 9 365, Intel Core Ultra 7 255H — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
