News Vendor claims Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with Zen 5 cores and 3D V-Cache is ready for launch — manufacturer also asserts Arrow Lake-HX CPUs offer minimal per...

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A PC manufacturer in China asserts that AMD and Intel are preparing their flagship HX CPUs, likely for CES.

Vendor claims Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with Zen 5 cores and 3D V-Cache is ready for launch — manufacturer also asserts Arrow Lake-HX CPUs offer minimal per... : Read more

 

[newtechldtech]

X3D for laptops is not needed at all . the GPU is the bottleneck is laptops.

 

[NinoPino]

X3D for laptops is not needed at all . the GPU is the bottleneck is laptops.

X3D parts are way more efficient than non-X3D CPUs, so imho it is a must-have, for peoples that need high performance in a portable form.
As pointed in the article, these CPUs are aimed at "desktop replacement", so the integrated GPU is not a big concern when 99% of have a discrete GPU.

 

[Mama Changa]

X3D for laptops is not needed at all . the GPU is the bottleneck is laptops.

LOL, the Fire Range apu will have a very weak iGPU and is designed to be used with a dGPU, so X3D is very important for this apu.

 

[watzupken]

I find this is overkill for most people and also priced way out for most people to buy. Looking at just the normal Ryzen AI chips currently available, and they are already very expensive, so I can imagine how much AMD will charge for this.

 

[abufrejoval]

Not sure you'd get an optimal gaming laptop out of these, because I'd have to concur that mobile dGPUs simply can't burn the Wattage of their desktop cousins. Perhaps more of a CUDA workstation, but these aren't mass market items. I wonder just how many of these chips AMD is selling...

I got a Dragon Range Zen4 16-core variant as a mobile-on-desktop Mini-ITX board from Minisforum and it's a very reasonable µ-server in my case, but would also work rather well as a gaming rig.

They don't have X3D models available, which I might have grabbed, otherwise; I'm very happy with the 7950X3D desktop CPUs I also own.

In practical gaming the difference between those two isn't nearly as high as the reviews seem to indicate, some things like Flight Simulator (2020 and 2024) in VR just suck no matter what I throw at them (RTX 4090 included), most others are just good enough to enjoy with either one.

My main attraction was the price point (€500 for the mainboard including the 16-core Zen 4 CPU) and the fact that for a stationary system, it's rather low power and noise.

TDP can be configured somewhere between 100 and 35 Watts on that board, mine runs "unconstrained" and it will reach 100 Watts on Prime95 max-heat for the entire APU according to HWinfo, 130 Watts at the wall plug, yet a simple quiet 90mm fan will keep it cool and idle is between 20 and 30 Watts at the wall plug, much less than typical Zen desktop systems.

Perhaps their target is really more mobile workstations but once their successors are announced, they evidently sell at much more reasonable prices.

BTW: while the iGPU is weak in terms of 3D, it's really rather snappy for 2D and works like a charm in hybrid mode with older dGPUs. E.g. I was able to get 4k at 144Hz and HDR out of the iGPU pairing it with a GTX1080ti, which can't deliver anything beyond 60Hz at 4k on its own. And gaming performance didn't suffer nearly as much from that hybrid configuration as I'd have imagined.