AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D spotted on Geekbench ahead of launch

AMD launched its first laptop chip with a 3D V-cache, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, without much grandeur. It is set to debut alongside the Asus ROG Strix Scar 17X3D on August 22. Like its desktop cousins, it should perform identically (and in some instances slower) than its non-X3D counterpart. A leaked Geekbench listing gives us a rough idea about how the chip fares.

The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D scores 2,783 and 16,080 points in Geekbench 6.1's single and multi-core tests, more or less the same as the Ryzen 9 7945HX (2,800/17,000 on average as per Geekbench's database). Unsurprisingly, the situation is identical in Geekbench 5.4 across multiple runs. The system in question packs 32 GB of DDR5 4,800 MT/s RAM. As advertised, the 16-core, 32-thread Ryzen 9 7945HX3D boosts up to 5.4 GHz.

These results aren't surprising, given Geekbench can't take advantage of the processor's 3D V-cache. However, it could give the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D a remarkable boost in gaming performance. Our in-depth analysis crowns the Intel Core i9-13980HX as the king of laptop CPUs, but it could soon be dethroned by Team Red's first-ever laptop chip with 144 MB of cache.

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