Tuesday, February 4th 2025
Notebooks Powered by Ryzen 9000HX and 9000HX3D "Fire Range" Available From March-April
One of AMD's key announcements at its 2025 International CES keynote was the Ryzen 9000HX line of processors, codenamed "Fire Range." A successor to the 7000HX "Dragon Range," this is essentially a BGA package of the "Granite Ridge" MCM, which combines one or two "Zen 5" CCDs with a client I/O die. The processor lacks an NPU and has a basic iGPU, but is meant for enthusiast segment gaming notebooks and portable workstations, as it's meant to be paired with discrete GPUs, taking advantage of the package's lavish 28 PCIe Gen 5 lanes. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D stands out in the series as the only model with 3D V-Cache, making it possibly the fastest mobile processor for gaming notebooks—faster than even the "Arrow Lake-HX," given how the desktop 9800X3D compares to the Core Ultra 9 285K at gaming.
Notebook OEM Dream Machines put out a press release which specifies that the first notebooks powered by the 9955HX3D will ship either toward the end of March, or early-April 2025. "Fire Range" is known to have scored design wins from several popular notebook OEMs, which means the chips could have a good run at the markets this generation. Notebooks powered by the 9955HX3D and discrete GPU options that include the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and the RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU, are expected to be priced around €2,530 and €3,860, respectively.
Notebook OEM Dream Machines put out a press release which specifies that the first notebooks powered by the 9955HX3D will ship either toward the end of March, or early-April 2025. "Fire Range" is known to have scored design wins from several popular notebook OEMs, which means the chips could have a good run at the markets this generation. Notebooks powered by the 9955HX3D and discrete GPU options that include the GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and the RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU, are expected to be priced around €2,530 and €3,860, respectively.
11 Comments on Notebooks Powered by Ryzen 9000HX and 9000HX3D "Fire Range" Available From March-April
Here is my favorite reference of all Ryzens in one place:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Ryzen_processors
39x and 38x have better GPUS, but not the 36x and 37x... so it's not valid either.
340 4 CUs
350 8 CUs
365 12 CUs
370 16 CUs
375 16 CUs
MAX 380 16 CUs
MAX 385 32 CUs
MAX+ 395 40 CUs
Numbers go up and so does the CUs for the most part. Also look for differentiators in the model name like 'MAX' and 'MAX+'.
Look at the caches sizes, then.
Now it's easier to follow, maybe, but people hate all the AI, PRO, MAX and + instead lol
9950HX3D:
Chiplets-IOD-----------------------------------GPU
395:
Chiplets-IOD&GPU
I've seen this over and over again: Lets throw V-cache at everything!!!
And I sustain my point on 3D cache on the top tier ones. They're clearly targetted at gaming, and historically chiplets for the 3d cache ones are higher bines with lower voltages making them always more efficient. Given these are mobile chips, they're prebinned for better efficiency, so all that's left is slapping the cache on top (well, bottom actually). side note - i know it is not "simple", but yeah, half way there regardless.
Now based on all the recent interviews I expect that's what going to happen pretty soon. Just few years ago we heard the 3D cache will be only for desktops, now they're having a SKU for mobile, and I feel like that trend will extend further down.
Now the efficiency - given iGPUs are usually hurt most by the performance of the non-v ram, having 3D cache would free up more transfers for the GPU - and that could yeld visible gains for the overall package.