Disappointing leak tempers Arrow Lake-HX expectations, AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with Zen 5 cores to grace high-end gaming laptops Leave a comment
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
Laptop enthusiasts across the range are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Intel’s and AMD’s upcoming high-end mobile CPU lineups. Intel’s Arrow Lake-HX lineup is widely expected to make its debut at CES 2025, while AMD has been rumored to be prepping Zen 5-based “Fire Range” enthusiast-grade laptop CPUs that will dethrone their Dragon Range predecessors, which were widely celebrated for their multicore performance and gaming potency.
As the Weibo post states, a Chinese vendor has revealed – rather disappointingly – Intel’s Arrow Lake-HX lineup, specifically the Core Ultra 9 255HX and the Core Ultra 275HX, will not bring substantial improvements to the table. For those holding out for a Blue Camp comeback, this development is far from promising. That said, there were no further details or benchmarks shared, so there is little clarity on what “not be greatly improved” entails. Still, it appears that the flagship Core Ultra 9 285HX with 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores remains a wildcard, although we have not been able to report any benchmark scores yet.
Moreover, the vendor has also revealed that on the other side of the ring, AMD is prepping successors for “Dragon Range” CPUs, which, like before, will include a variant with 3D V-Cache. As both Golden Pig Upgrade and HXL have reported, it will likely be named the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D, which is great news if true, since we won’t have to deal with yet another rebranding. No further details were shared, so the particulars regarding core counts and clock speeds remain murky. The “Dragon Range” chips came with 16 cores and 64/128 MB caches, so something similar might be the case with “Fire Range” as well. Either way, desktop-grade silicon in a mobile system will inevitably boast outstanding performance, albeit reserved for the highest-end laptops.
