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AMD may be setting up to release a new series of Dragon Range CPUs for high-end gaming laptops in the coming months. A new leak suggests that AMD is preparing to launch at least two new CPUs in the Ryzen 9 7000 series. Specifically the Ryzen 9 7840HX and the Ryzen 9 7940HX.
Both new CPUs will reportedly launch sometime in 2024 but are part of the Dragon Range lineup. Which in a way makes them part of the company’s 2023 lineup of CPUs. The main goal with these chips is apparently to offer a high-end CPU for high-end gaming laptops that can bring the cost down. The current Dragon Range flagship chip for example is fairly expensive and the cost only goes up when you have a laptop config that comes with a top-end GPU.
The issue there is that this results in a very expensive gaming laptop that most people either aren’t willing to spend the money on or aren’t able to afford. So by releasing a pair of new Dragon Range CPUs in the Ryzen 9 series, AMD seems to be trying to expand the list of options for manufacturers which thereby expands the list of laptop options for consumers.
New AMD Dragon Range CPUs will offer slightly lower clock speeds
The leak (which comes from Golden Pig Upgrade on bilibili via VideoCardz) doesn’t mention pricing specifics. But based on the details from VideoCardz these new chips will have the same amount of L3 cache and iGPUs as their counterparts. Specifically the Ryzen 9 7945HX and Ryzen 9 7845HX CPUs. This means the new 7940HX and 7840HX chips will likely see an L3 cache of 64MB and an R610M for the iGPU. Each will also potentially come with 16 and 12 Zen4 Cores respectively. Where the pricing on these chips may allow for a drop is with the clock speeds.
It’s unclear what these base and maximum clock speeds will be just yet. But if they’re lower than the 45 series chips, then it’s likely the base clock will be lower than 2.5GHz on the 7940HX and lower than 3.0GHz on the 7840HX. Meanwhile the max clock speeds should be lower than 5.4GHz and 5.2GHz respectively.
This change to less expensive but still high-end CPUs for laptops showcases AMD’s desire to be the market leader for gaming laptop CPUs. As lower pricing with comparable performance could lead to more manufacturers picking up the tech and using it in their own products.
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