AMD has introduced Ryzen 8000 HX series processor for gaming laptops at a affordable price.It's fairly obvious why they're known as "Dragon Ridge Refresh. i.e an update version of this processor range
Everyone wants to spend less in comparison to previous in exchange of a new product. It may be a great opportunity for AMD to lunch new Ryzen 8000 Core HX( lower power consumed 75 ) mobile processors for gaming notebooks. Some features of the Ryzen 9000 series are missing in this processor.
Ryzen 9000 supports PCIe 5.0 and has higher clock frequency in comparison with 8000 HX. Essentially, the new Ryzen 8000 HX series, known as Dragon Range Refresh, is quite similar to the “Dragon Range” Ryzen 7000 HX series that was launched in January 2023. It should sit below the AMD’s Zen 5 architecture processor model Ryzen 9 9955HX and Ryzen 9 9850HX AMD launched in conjunction with the Ryzen 9955HX3D.
Both AMD’s Ryzen 7000 HX and the refreshed Ryzen 8000 HX parts both use the older Zen 4 architecture, however, and there’s no NPU, either. In fact, both the older Ryzen 7000 parts and the latest Ryzen 8000 HX series both feature processors with up to 16 cores and 32 threads and can be used in laptops with 45 to 75 watts of thermal design power, or TDP. (The default is 55W.) Both families use AMD’s TSMC’s 5nm process. One of the more significant changes AMD made has been to phase out the six-core Ryzen 5 7645HX for an 8-core Ryzen 7 8745HX.
The 8000HX Series is a refresh of the 7000HX Series with a few key differences in clock speeds and firmware. However, the 8000HX Series is intended to be paired with newer, more powerful discrete GPUs, and offers users more options for those looking to get into systems with the latest graphics.
AMD’s Ryzen 8000 HX series do include integrated graphics, though the Ryzen 610M clocked with frequency 2200Mhz inside the 8945HX and its two RDNA 2 graphics cores aren’t enough to serve as a gaming GPU, of course. Laptop makers will want to add a discrete GPU for that. This processor is compatible with both Nvidia and AMD GPUs like RX 7000 and higher model of RTX, RX
AMD’s new Ryzen 8000 HX chips will use DDR5 SODIMM i.e( having smaller design , lesser pin in comparison to UDIMM) memory and have 28 lanes of PCI Express 5.0 available. That means it will enhance the battery capacity as it use 20% lesser power at 1.1 volt. Foremost laptop brands will start lunching their gaming models with this 8000 HX series processor very soon.
You can check more details about this chipset from its official website below (alert-passed)
