It seems AMD is bringing Ryzen 8000HX processors to market after all, in lieu of formally announcing the chips at CES 2025. While Team Red is still yet to confirm their existence, the CPUs are breaking cover in the specs pages of upcoming laptops.
As Weibo user recently discovered a listing for an ROG Strix gaming laptop rocking a Ryzen 9 8940HX processor. It’s practically identical to AMD’s prior generation Ryzen 9 7940HX chip, sporting 16 Zen 4 cores and 32 threads albeit with a slightly higher boost clock of 5.3GHz making for a 100MHz uplift.
Note that this isn’t the flagship Ryzen 8000HX Series processor, as that title belongs to Ryzen 9 8945HX. Those seeking all the performance AMD has to offer should look to laptops sporting Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, but expect to pay a pretty penny for the luxury of 3D V-Cache.
Legitimate as this listing appears, nothing’s set in stone until AMD speaks on the matter. However, I doubt that Team Red will have little else to say other than to quietly confirm the existence of these new mobile processors.
If there was ever a place for AMD to properly launch its Ryzen 8000HX processors, it’d be Computex. The brand hasn’t given any indication of what it plans to showcase at the trade show, but I imagine we’ll see these chips appear alongside Radeon RX 9060 Series graphics cards during its keynote.
