AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 12-Core APU Is Faster Than 20-Core 14700HX & 14-Core M3 Max In PassMark Benchmark
AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU has made its debut in the PassMark benchmark, delivering faster performance than Apple's M3 & Intel's 14700HX.
AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix" APU Delivers Strong Multi-Core Performance In PassMark, 28% Faster Than Predecessor
The flagship Ryzen AI 300 APU, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, has appeared in various benchmarks and it looks like PassMark is the latest entry. The CPU has made its first appearance in the latest tests which show strong performance versus the competition but before we get to the results, let us take a quick look at the specifications the chip has to offer.
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The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU is part of the Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" family and features a 12-core and 24-thread chip that features a four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5C configuration. This chip runs at up to 5.1 GHz boost clocks, offers 36 MB of cache (24 MB L3 + 12 MB L2), & the Radeon 890M iGPU with 16 compute units or 1024 cores. So versus the previous flagship, the Ryzen 9 8945HS, you are getting 50% more cores/threads, 33.3% more compute units, and 3.12x the NPU performance which is great gen-over-gen gains.
So for the performance, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU scored 4213 points in the single-core and 37,699 points in the multi-core tests within PassMark. The CPU is listed as the 12th fastest laptop CPU on the PassMark database so let's see how the chip fares against other current-gen offerings:
PassMark Multi-Core (Higher is Better)
Multi-Core 0100002000030000400005000060000 0100002000030000400005000060000 Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 57922 Ryzen 9 7945HX 54697 Core i9-14900HX 46406 Ryzen 9 7845HX 45724 Apple M3 Max 16-Core 40629 Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 36799 Apple M3 Max 14-Core 36154 Core i7-14700HX 36103 Ryzen 7 7745HX 32770 Ryzen 9 8945HS 29452 Core Ultra 9 185H 29016PassMark Single-Core (Higher is Better)
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