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AMD Ryzen 9 270 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 7 H 260

AMD Ryzen 9 270

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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.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

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AMD Ryzen 7 H 260

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The AMD Ryzen 7 H 260 is a high-end notebook processor from the Hawk Point series with 8 cores and hyperthreading (SMT), which means it can process up to 16 threads simultaneously. At release, the CPU is only available in China and is technically practically identical to the older AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS or Ryzen 7 7840HS (slower AI engine).

The performance of the second-fastest model in the Hawk Point series should only be slightly behind the Ryzen 9 7940HS (+100 - 200 MHz clock, e.g. only 2% slower Turbo). As a result, the performance at 54W TDP should also be comparable to the AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX (also 8 Zen 4 cores, max 5.1 GHz, 55W, 32 MB L3) and thus clearly ahead of the old top model AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX resp. 6980HS (with lower TDP).

The chip integrates a modern RDNA 3-based graphics card (iGPU) called Radeon 780M with 12 CUs and up to 2.7GHz including AV1 video engine. Furthermore, a Xilinx FPGA-based XDNA AI accelerator is also integrated, which is now clocked higher. Hawk Point offers 2x USB 4 (40 Gbps), 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes and a dual-channel DDR5-5600 / LPDDR5x-7500 memory controller (with ECC support).

The Hawk Point series is a single chip (unlike the Dragon Range 7045HX series) and is manufactured at TSMC using the modern 4nm FinFET process.

ModelAMD Ryzen 9 270AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3DAMD Ryzen 7 H 260
CodenameHawk Point-HS (Zen 4)Granite RidgeHawk Point-HS (Zen 4)
SeriesAMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)AMD Granite Ridge (Zen 5, AM5)AMD Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c)
Series: Hawk Point (Zen 4/4c) Hawk Point-HS (Zen 4)
AMD Ryzen 9 H 2704 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 270 « 4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 2603.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 H 2603.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS3.8 - 4.9 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 2404.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS4.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D « 4.3 - 5.7 GHz16 / 32 cores128 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X4.3 - 5.7 GHz16 / 32 cores64 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X4.4 - 5.6 GHz12 / 24 cores64 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X3.8 - 5.5 GHz8 / 16 cores32 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D4.7 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores96 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X3.9 - 5.4 GHz6 / 12 cores32 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 H 2704 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 2704 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945H4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS4 - 5.2 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 2603.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 H 260 « 3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS3.8 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS3.8 - 4.9 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS3.3 - 5.1 GHz8 / 16 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 2404.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS4.3 - 5 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS3.5 - 4.9 GHz6 / 12 cores16 MB L3
Clock4000 - 5200 MHz4300 - 5700 MHz3800 - 5100 MHz
L1 Cache512 KB512 KB
L2 Cache8 MB16 MB8 MB
L3 Cache16 MB128 MB16 MB
Cores / Threads8 / 16
8 x 5.2 GHz AMD Zen 4
16 / 32
16 x 5.7 GHz AMD Zen 5
8 / 16
8 x 5.1 GHz AMD Zen 4
TDP45 Watt170 Watt45 Watt
Technology4 nm4 nm4 nm
Die Size178 mm2178 mm2
max. Temp.100 °C100 °C
SocketFP8AM5FP7/FP7r2/FP8
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, SMEDDR5-5600 RAM (incl. ECC), PCIe 5, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, HCPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SMEDDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM, PCIe 4, Ryzen AI, 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
iGPUAMD Radeon 780M ( - 2800 MHz)AMD Radeon 610M ( - 2200 MHz)AMD Radeon 780M ( - 2700 MHz)
Architecturex86x86x86
Announced
Manufacturerwww.amd.comwww.amd.comwww.amd.com

Benchmarks

Performance Rating - CB R15 + R20 + 7-Zip + X265 + Blender + 3DM11 CPU - R9 9950X3D
52.1 pt (87%)
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Cinebench 2024 - Cinebench 2024 CPU Single Core
138.4 Points (78%)
Cinebench 2024 - Cinebench 2024 CPU Multi Core
2365 Points (44%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Multi Core
42018 Points (39%)
Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 Single Core
2259 Points (95%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
886 Points (97%)
Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
16347 Points (40%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
6536 Points (41%)
Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
350 Points (97%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multi Thread 4 runs
163125 MIPS (94%)
7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
7783 MIPS (92%)
HWBOT x265 Benchmark v2.2 - HWBOT x265 4k Preset
48.5 fps (85%)
Blender - Blender 3.3 Classroom CPU *
113 Seconds (1%)
Blender - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
75 Seconds (1%)
R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
0.3 sec (7%)
3DMark 11 - 3DM11 Performance Physics
40609 Points (100%)
3DMark - 3DMark Fire Strike Standard Physics
49235 Points (88%)
3DMark - 3DMark Time Spy CPU
16950 Points (71%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Single-Core
100%
1 R9 270 +
2524 Points (63%)
3434 Points (86%)
Geekbench 6.4 - Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core
100%
1 R9 270 +
12516 Points (49%)
22405 Points (87%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Single-Core
2548 Points (100%)
Geekbench 5.5 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.5 64 Bit Multi-Core
25682 Points (46%)
Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
382 ms (0%)
WebXPRT 4 - WebXPRT 4 Score
342 Points (94%)
WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
387 Points (69%)
CrossMark - CrossMark Overall
2380 Points (89%)
Power Consumption - Prime95 Power Consumption - external Monitor *
320 Watt (55%)
Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
309 Watt (56%)
Power Consumption - Idle Power Consumption - external Monitor *
95.4 Watt (63%)
Power Consumption - Power Efficiency - Cinebench R15 Multi external Monitor
21.2 Points per Watt (16%)

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