Lenovo Yoga Slim 7a shows why the Ryzen AI 7 445 isn't going to blow anyone away

AMD’s product naming convention seems to suggest that the Ryzen AI 7 445 offers a similar level of performance as the older Ryzen AI 7 350. However, our review of the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7a revealed that this is not the case. Starting with CPU performance, the Ryzen AI 7 445 was noticeably outpaced by the AI 7 350 in our suite of benchmarks since it only has six cores rather than eight and a lower thread count of 12 instead of 16.

The AI 7 445’s gaming performance is even more modest. The integrated Radeon 840M doesn’t stand a chance against the AI 7 350’s Radeon 860M. In 3DMark, the latter even managed to deliver around 80 to 90% more performance on average. AMD should have given the processor a more befitting name (such as Ryzen AI 5 445), as customers may feel misled by the company in the worst-case scenario.

Moreover, there are already devices equipped with faster CPUs and iGPUs in the same price bracket as the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7a (our review unit costs around €1,300, or $1,530), potentially making these alternatives a better value proposition.