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AMD Ryzen AI 7 450
Gorgon Point brings AMD's Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores to the mid-range Ryzen AI 7 tier, pairing eight cores and a Radeon 860M with a 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU for Copilot+ features at a lower price than the Ryzen AI 9 lineup.
Pros
- 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU meets Copilot+ requirements
- Radeon 860M handles light 1080p gaming at up to 3.1GHz
- Configurable TDP from 15W to 54W suits both thin laptops and larger chassis
- Supports up to 256GB of DDR5 or LPDDR5x memory
- Cheaper than Ryzen AI 9 parts with the same NPU performance
Cons
- Four of the eight cores are lower-clocked Zen 5c cores
- Only 16MB of L3 cache versus 24MB on the Ryzen AI 9 line
- Multi-core performance trails higher-tier Strix Point chips
Good
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen AI 7 450
General
- Announced
- 2026
- Process
- 4 nm
- Base TDP
- 28 W
- Max TDP
- 54 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 8
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 4
- Threads
- 16
- Base clock
- 2 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.1 GHz
- L3 cache
- 16 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon 860M
- iGPU clock
- 3,100 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-8533 / DDR5-5600
- Max memory
- 256 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,914Top 23%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 13,789Top 34%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 2,035Top 19%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 17,302Top 25%
- PassMark
- 26,312Top 31%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 earns an Inno Score of 62.5/100 (“Good”) based on its specs and benchmark results. Gorgon Point brings AMD's Zen 5 and Zen 5c cores to the mid-range Ryzen AI 7 tier, pairing eight cores and a Radeon 860M with a 50 TOPS XDNA 2 NPU for Copilot+ features at a lower price than the Ryzen AI 9 lineup.
Does the AMD Ryzen AI 7 450 count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 26,312 (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 AI 7 450?
Cores: 8 · Threads: 16 · Boost clock: 5.1 GHz · Base TDP: 28 W
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen AI 7 450?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core Ultra 7 251HX, Apple M3 Pro (12-core), Intel Core i9-14900HX — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
