AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 vs Ryzen 9 8945HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 with 12-cores against the 4.0 GHz Ryzen 9 8945HS with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 8945HS and 375
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375
  • Has 4 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • More powerful AMD Radeon 890M integrated graphics: 5.9 vs 4.3 TFLOPS
  • Newer - released 7 months later
  • 24% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2977 vs 2394 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.2 GHz vs 5.1 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (98th and 172nd place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
File compression 1270 MB/sec 494.2 MB/sec
Clang compilation 131.2 Klines/sec 92.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 304 pages/sec 287.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 480.8 Mpixels/sec 280.8 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 316.2 pages/sec 251.5 pages/sec
Background blur 74.1 images/sec 65.5 images/sec
Photo processing 135.3 images/sec 104.2 images/sec
Ray tracing 32.6 Mpixels/sec 27.1 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] โ€“ 119 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 124.4 GOps/sec 99.6 GOps/sec
Floating point math 78.3 GOps/sec 60.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 129M Primes/sec 90M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 48.5M Strings/sec 42.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 22.3 GBytes/sec 20.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 446.6 MBytes/sec 349.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1911 Frames/sec 1409 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 32B Matrices/sec 26.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] โ€“ 140 & 1472 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 23.6 PPW 17.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 300.7 PPW 219.9 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 654.5 PPW 541.7 PPW
Blender / Watt - 4.05 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-10-31 (DavidchoGamer84)Cinebench 2024121 / 1277
AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
DateBenchmarkResult
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-08-12 (Ash)Cinebench 2024100 / 870
๐Ÿ“˜ 2025-07-14 (END)Cinebench 2024105 / 943

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 and Ryzen 9 8945HS

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released July 24, 2024 December 6, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 5 (Strix Point) Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number 375 -
Integrated GPU Radeon 890M Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - Intel Core i9 14900HX - Intel Core Ultra 9 185H
Successor - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 475 - AMD Ryzen 9 270
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (27th and 65th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 8
P-Threads 8 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.0 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 5.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 16 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.0 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 12 8
Total Threads 24 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 20x 40x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 15-54 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Socket FP8 FP8
Peak Temperature 100ยฐC 100ยฐC
Laptop processors ranking (39th and 104th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon 890M Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 400 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2900 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 16 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
5.9 TFLOPS
4.3 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-8000
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 official page AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 20

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5 (62.5%)
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Total votes: 8

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS or AI 9 HX 375?
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Eto December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I recently got the 375hx it's very efficient...but it has 24 processors
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