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AMD Ryzen 9 270

AMD R9 270

The Ryzen 9 270 is a rebadged Ryzen 9 8945HS, making it a fast mobile laptop processor. This is an APU of the Hawk Point family that has eight Zen 4 cores running at 4.0 GHz to 5.2 GHz. This APU was introduced at CES 2025 and all of its cores are SMT-enabled for a total of 16 processing threads.

Architecture and Features

Hawk Point family chips are powered by the Zen 4 architecture, much like Phoenix and Dragon Range family chips were. The 16 TOPS NPU present here isn't powerful enough for systems built around the 9 270 to be Copilot+ certified.

Elsewhere, the chip has 16 MB of L3 cache and support for super-fast DDR5-5600 and LPDDR5x-7500 RAM while also being compatible with USB 4 and thus with Thunderbolt. It comes with 20 PCIe 4 lanes, giving fast NVMe SSD up to 7.8 GB/s of throughput.

Please note that this processor is not overclockable and neither is it user-replaceable. It gets soldered to the motherboard for good instead (FP8 socket interface).

Performance

Its CPU performance is slated to be identical to the old Ryzen 9 8945HS and R9 7940HS.

Your mileage may vary depending on how high the CPU power limits are and how competent the cooling solution of your system is.

Graphics

The Radeon 780M has 12 CUs (768 shaders) purring away at up to 2,800 MHz. The Radeon will let you use up to 4 monitors with resolutions as high as SUHD 4320p and it will also HW-decode and HW-encode the most widely used video codecs (such as AV1, HEVC and AVC) without breaking a sweat. As for gaming, most 2024 games run fine at 1080p with settings set to Low on this graphics adapter.

Your mileage may vary depending on how high the CPU power limits are, how competent the cooling solution of the system is, how fast the RAM of the system is (there is no dedicated VRAM here).

Power consumption

This Ryzen 9 series chip has a long-term power limit (default TDP) of 35 W to 54 W, giving laptop makers a choice between longer battery life and higher performance. Either way, an active cooling solution is a must for a system powered by this chip.

The R9 270 is built with TSMC's 4 nm process for a reasonably good, as of early 2025, energy efficiency.

CodenameHawk Point-HS (Zen 4)
SeriesAMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)

Series: Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) Hawk Point-HS (Zen 4)

AMD Ryzen 9 270 « 4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS compare4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 260 compare3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS compare3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS compare3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 240 compare4.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS compare4.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS compare3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
Clock Rate4000 - 5200 MHz
Level 1 Cache512 KB
Level 2 Cache8 MB
Level 3 Cache16 MB
Number of Cores / Threads8 / 16
8 x 5.2 GHz AMD Zen 4
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)45 Watt
Manufacturing Technology4 nm
Die Size178 mm2
Max. Temperature100 °C
SocketFP8
FeaturesDDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, PCIe 4, USB 4, Ryzen AI (16 TOPS), MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
GPUAMD Radeon 780M ( - 2800 MHz)
64 Bit64 Bit support
Architecturex86
Announcement Date01/06/2025
Product Link (external)www.amd.com

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Other CPUs of the series Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)

» AMD Ryzen 9 270
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 260
   8x 3.8 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS
   8x 3.8 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 240
   6x 4.3 GHz - 5 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS
   6x 4.3 GHz - 5 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 250
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 250
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 7 8840U
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen Z2
   8x 3.3 GHz - 5.1 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 230
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 230
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8640U
   6x 3.5 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 220
   6x 3.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 220
   6x 3.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
   6x 3.2 GHz - 4.9 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 3 210
   4x 3 GHz - 4.7 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 210
   4x 3 GHz - 4.7 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 3 8440U
   4x 3 GHz - 4.7 GHz

Surrounding CPUs

+ Intel Core i7-13705H
   14x 1.8 GHz - 5 GHz
+ Intel Core i7-13700H
   14x 1.8 GHz - 5 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 5 245HX
   14x 2.6 GHz - 5.1 GHz
+ Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX
   14x 2.6 GHz - 5.1 GHz
+ Intel Core i5-14500HX
   14x 1.8 GHz - 5 GHz
» AMD Ryzen 9 270
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945H
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
- AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
   8x 4 GHz - 5.2 GHz
- Intel Core i7-13650HX
   14x 1.9 GHz - 4.9 GHz
- Apple M3 Pro 12-Core
   12x 2.75 GHz - 4.06 GHz
Klaus Hinum (Update: 2025-01-13)