AMD launched the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D cellular processor for gaming laptops at CES 2025, staking its personal, daring declare because the world’s finest cellular processor for gaming and content material creation.
AMD individually added a pair of recent processors, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and the Ryzen 9 9900X3D, to its desktop product lineup throughout a press convention on the CES present in Las Vegas. Just like the 9955HX3D, these chips add large quantities of on-package V-Cache for highly effective gaming efficiency — main AMD to boast that they have been the world’s finest gaming and productiveness processors, interval. AMD took the same method with the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, packing a barely smaller quantity of cache inside a chip optimized for laptops.
AMD launched the three new “Fire Range” processors for cellular gaming on Monday. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D leads the best way, in fact, plus two extra typical processors: the Ryzen 9 9955HX and the Ryzen 9 9850HX. Each of the latter chips use AMD’s extra conventional cellular Ryzen structure, with a sizeable however not eye-popping quantity of native cache.
Right here’s a brief abstract of what AMD introduced, together with the brand new “Fire Range” processor on the prime of the stack:
- Ryzen 9 9955HX3D: 16 cores/32 threads, as much as 5.4GHz turbo; 144MB cache; 54W TDP
- Ryzen 9 9955HX: 16 cores/32 threads, as much as 5.4GHz turbo; 80MB cache; 54W TDP
- Ryzen 9 9850HX: 12 cores/24 threads, as much as 5.2GHz turbo; 76MB cache; 54W TDP
Like AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement, AMD unnoticed some key particulars, specifically the bottom clock pace and value. (Processor makers hardly ever expose the worth they cost to laptop computer makers, nonetheless.) Since AMD stated the chips can be out there within the first half of 2025, it presumably will launch at the very least a few of these extra particulars nearer to launch. Whereas the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D runs barely slower than the desktop 9950X3D (5.4GHz vs 5.7GHz turbo) it incorporates the identical quantity of V-Cache.
AMD representatives confirmed that these new cores are primarily based on its Zen 5 structure. AMD launched the Ryzen 7045HX “Dragon Range” Cellular processors in January 2023, which have been all Zen 4 chips, leaving room for brand new Zen 5 CPU cores in future processors. In July 2023, AMD added the cellular Ryzen 9 7945HX3D, which paired AMD’s stacked V-Cache with the HX processor.
Curiously, AMD didn’t launch any efficiency estimates for the three new chips, although the corporate did so for the desktop Ryzen 9 9950X3D. These confirmed (in accordance with AMD) that its chip outperformed Intel’s Core 285K “Arrow Lake” desktop chip by about 20 % in a mixture of gaming benchmarks.
In any occasion, we’ll have to attend for extra element, particularly a head-to-head comparability between AMD’s Fireplace Vary and Intel’s personal upcoming Core HX processors for gaming laptops.
“At CES 2025 we are only unveiling ‘Fire Range’ specs,” an AMD consultant stated in an e-mail. “AMD will be announcing full details about ‘Fire Range,’ including performance and benchmarks, as we get closer to on-shelf.”
