AMD has released Ryzen 7045HX processors for laptops. They are the company’s first laptop CPUs that are chiplets-based and have more than eight cores. AMD announced the CPUs at the beginning of this year, but did not specify a specific release date.

AMD Reports that laptop OEMs will ship models with the Ryzen 7045HX processor going forward. The first of these has now also appeared on Pricewatch. ASUS owns some laptops with the Ryzen 7045HX chip, including the Zephyrus series. The cheapest of these features the Ryzen 9 7845HX with twelve Zen 4 cores and currently costs €1,999. According to AMD, laptops from Dell, Lenovo, and MSI will also be coming soon.

The Ryzen 7045HX series, also known as the Dragon Range, was announced in January. These CPUs are based on Ryzen 7000 processors for desktop computers. These are the first laptop CPUs from AMD that consist of Chiplets. The Ryzen 7045HX chips come with up to sixteen cores and up to 64MB of L3 cache. The CPUs are based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture and are produced at TSMC at 5 nm.

AMD comes with four different Dragon Range models, which come with six, eight, twelve, or sixteen cores. The top model in the series is the Ryzen 9 7945HX, which according to AMD performs 10% better in games than the new Intel Core i9 13900HX processor. However, no independent reviews of CPUs have been published. AMD says the first laptops with the processors will ship to reviewers this month.