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AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

AMD’s eight-core Zen 4 laptop processor from the Ryzen 8000 series, codenamed Hawk Point.

According to AMD, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has eight cores and 16 threads, a 4 GHz base clock and up to 5.2 GHz single-core boost, with 8 MB L2 and 16 MB L3 cache. It is built on TSMC 4 nm.

Default TDP is 45 W, and laptop makers can configure it between 35 and 54 W, so the same chip can sustain different performance in different chassis. Its NPU delivers up to 16 TOPS, and the whole processor up to 39 TOPS of AI performance.

The 12-core Radeon 780M integrated graphics runs at up to 2800 MHz and supports up to four displays through DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1. Memory support is DDR5-5600 or LPDDR5x-7500, with PCIe 4.0 and up to two native USB4 (40 Gbit/s) controllers. Whether a laptop actually exposes a USB4 port depends on the maker’s design.

Devices using this technology

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) GA403UI — ASUS family image of the ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) in Eclipse Gray; the image does not show the GPU variant, and the colour of this SKU is not stated in the documents.

Laptops · 2024

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) GA403UI

The Zephyrus G14 (2024) is ASUS’s 14-inch aluminium gaming and creator laptop. The GA403UI variant offers a Ryzen 9 8945HS processor, an RTX 4070 Laptop GPU that can draw up to 90 W, a 120 Hz 3K OLED display and a weight of 1.5 kg. Independent testing praised the OLED panel and portability; it criticised soldered memory, PWM below 60% brightness, fan noise in Turbo mode and small Enter/arrow keys. Owner reports mention display, camera and random shutdown issues as separate single cases.

Sources

  1. AMD: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS specifications