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In fact, they’re almost identical.

There’s also no change to the integrated Radeon 610M GPU, which boasts two RDNA 2 GPU cores.

Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 Ryzen

AMD’s new Ryzen 8000HX mobile CPUs should start showing up in laptops soon.

Here’s a look at how the two generations compare.

CPU

Cores / Threads

Boost / Base freq.

AMD’s Ryzen 7000HX series eventually grew to seven total chips.

The MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo (B2HMG) with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H inside.

The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D brought AMD’s awesome 3D V-Cache technology tohigh-end gaming laptops, significantly boosting gaming performance.

The new “Dragon Range Refresh” chips are certainly not a major upgrade over their predecessors.

Instead, AMD looks to be focusing on affordability with these new chips.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D boxed held in front of a blue cloudy sky with Windows Central best award

That’s more important than ever in a tech market thrown into chaos bytariffsthat are raising laptop prices.

Image of the ASUS Zenbook A14 (2025).

AMD Ryzen 5 5500

MSI Claw 8 AI+ on a stand and running a Sonic game.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition power adapter in box

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang addresses participants at the keynote of CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 6, 2025.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition (front) compared to RTX 5090 Founders Edition (rear)

Diablo 4 Season 7 Season of the Witch

Marathon gameplay reveal

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly seen on a laptop computer in Hastings on the Hudson, New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 22. 2020.

Lenovo IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 deal

Promotional screenshot of characters from Zenless Zone Zero

MSI Claw 8 AI+ propped up next to an ROG Ally X on a table.

U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a “Make America Wealthy Again” trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC.