CES 2025 | AMD unveils new Fire Range CPUs with Ryzen 9 9955HX3D at the helm
While AMD was not particularly immune from CES leaks, one of its flagship products managed to evade even the most prolific leakers until the very last moment. AMD's Zen 5-based Fire Range CPUs are back, this time with a HX tag. Last year's Ryzen 8000 Hawk Point CPUs didn't include any, and this time, only three of them have been unveiled unlike Dragon Range, which had seven SKUs in total.
| Model | Core count | Boost clock | Cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 16c 32t | 5.4 GHz | 144 MB |
| Ryzen 9 9955HX | 16c 32t | 5.4 GHz | 80 MB |
| Ryzen 9 9850HX | 16c 32t | 5.2 GHz | 76 MB |
We finally get a second 3D V-cache laptop chip with the confusingly named Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. Its predecessor, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, only ever found its way in one laptop and one mini-PC, and one can only hope this one is more widely adopted by OEMs. On paper, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D should deliver measurable generation-over-generation performance gains thanks to new Zen 5 cores and the extra L3 cache, but raw performance will ultimately come down to power availability.
Its non-HX counterparts, the Ryzen 9 9955HX and Ryzen 9 9850HX, are almost the same chips with a marginal difference in boost clock and total cache. Unfortunately, this is all the information AMD has provided about Fire Range. The lack of AI in its name hints the lack of a dedicated NPU. Additionally, there will be ample space for Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 SKUs to show up in the future.
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