Ryzen 7 7745HX processor review – optimal consumption in gaming

Last month, AMD officially released the Ryzen 7000HX Dragon Range processors, but the availability status of laptops equipped with these processors is still unknown. Up to this moment, we have seen reviews of the 12-core Ryzen 9 7845HX processor and the 16-core Ryzen 9 7945HX processor, but there was no special news about the 6- and 8-core processors of this series. But recently the Chinese reviewer Golden Pig Upgrade published a review of the Ryzen 7 7745HX 8-core processor on the Bilibili website.

Ryzen 7 7745HX processor gaming review

As we said, the Golden Pig Upgrade review of the Ryzen 7 7745HX processor is the first published review of this processor. Despite having fewer cores than other members of the Dragon Range family and even Intel’s flagship processors, this processor has excellent gaming performance and its energy consumption is also optimal.

The Ryzen 7 7745HX processor has a base frequency of 3.6 GHz and a maximum frequency of 5.1 GHz. Like the rest of the HX series processors, this processor uses Zen 4 desktop silicon and is packaged like desktop processors, except that it is optimized for installation in laptops. Since this processor has a desktop silicon, its energy consumption varies between 45 and 75 watts, and in the case of overclocking, it becomes more.

The Ryzen 7 7745HX processor was tested on a Lenovo laptop equipped with a GeForce RTX 4060 140W graphics card and DDR5-5200 memory. Even though the graphics card of this laptop is not the most powerful graphics card of Nvidia’s RTX 40 series, it still has acceptable processing power and shows brilliant gaming performance.

This processor has been tested in various benchmarks such as Cinebench, SuperPI, y-cruncher and 3DMark. Benchmarks show that the R7 7745HX 8-core processor, despite having fewer cores than the i7 13650HX 14-core processor and the i7 13700HX 16-core processor, performs as well as these two processors and performs better in some benchmarks such as Lightroom and Photoshop.

Since AMD processors consume less than Intel processors, laptops equipped with AMD processors can provide more energy to the graphics card than the total electrical energy they have. Therefore, the graphics card performance is better in these laptops.

According to the review, the R7 7745HX processor gets between 3 and 5 percent performance improvement when overclocked via AMD Precision Boost Overdrive. This feature can be enabled through the BIOS of AMD platforms. Apart from the overclocking issue, this processor is very optimized; Especially in gaming. The average power consumption of this processor is 50.9 watts, while the Intel processors consume 46.5 and 79 watts respectively at 1080p resolution. At 1440p, the i7 13650HX consumes a few more watts.

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