AMD quietly unveils its refreshed Zen 4 gaming laptop CPUs – the Ryzen 8000HX series

In brief: In the gaming laptop space, AMD has focused most of its recent efforts on Zen 5-based APU lineups like the Ryzen AI 300 and Ryzen AI Max. However, new variants of the high-end Dragon Range processors show that the company hasn't abandoned notebooks with dedicated CPU and GPU combos. Listings for four new high-end laptop processors recently appeared on AMD's website. Unlike the company's Fire Range and Ryzen AI 300 series, the new Ryzen 8000HX CPUs utilize the older Zen 4 architecture, with specifications closely resembling those of 2023's 7000HX lineup. AMD appears to have refreshed its Dragon Range series from two years ago with little fanfare. The new processors reuse TSMC's 5nm FinFET process node and RDNA 2-based Radeon 610M integrated graphics, drawing up to 75W. CPU Cores CPU Threads Max Boost Clock Base Clock L1 Cache L2 Cache L3 Cache Ryzen 9 8945HX 16 32 5.4 GHz 2.5 GHz 1024 KB 16 MB 64 MB Ryzen 9 8940HX 16 32 5.3 GHz 2.4 GHz 1024 KB 16 MB 64 MB Ryzen 7 8840HX 12 ... Read full article.