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AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
The top Hawk Point HS part is a gently clocked-up 8845HS wearing a Ryzen 9 badge: the same excellent eight-core Zen 4 formula and Radeon 780M graphics, binned one step higher for premium performance designs.
Pros
- Excellent eight-core performance in the 35-54W class
- Radeon 780M remains the iGPU to beat at this tier
- Slightly higher clocks than the 8845HS
- Efficient, mature Zen 4 platform
Cons
- Rebadge-level gains over the 7840HS
- 16 TOPS NPU misses Copilot+ spec
- Ryzen 9 badge on an eight-core chip
Good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
General
- Announced
- 2023
- Process
- 4 nm
- Base TDP
- 35 W
- Max TDP
- 54 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 8
- Performance cores
- 8
- Threads
- 16
- Base clock
- 4 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.2 GHz
- L3 cache
- 16 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon 780M
- iGPU clock
- 2,800 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-7500 / DDR5-5600
- Max memory
- 256 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,700Top 39%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 13,100Top 37%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,810Top 36%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 17,300Top 26%
- PassMark
- 29,208Top 23%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 2,659Top 22%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS earns an Inno Score of 60.2/100 (“Good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The top Hawk Point HS part is a gently clocked-up 8845HS wearing a Ryzen 9 badge: the same excellent eight-core Zen 4 formula and Radeon 780M graphics, binned one step higher for premium performance designs.
Does the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 29,208 (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 8945HS?
Cores: 8 · Threads: 16 · Boost clock: 5.2 GHz · Base TDP: 35 W
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i7-14700HX, Intel Core Ultra 5 225H, AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
