Ryzen 7 7745HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 7745HX brings the Dragon Range formula to the upper mid-range — an 8-core Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 7000 generation that delivers flagship-class throughput without the flagship badge. The catalog matches it to 5 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 69 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Ryzen 7 7745HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 91.5 places the chip 14th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top two percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The three just above are the Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 (93.6), Ryzen 9 7845HX (93.4) and Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (92.4); the three just below are the Core Ultra 7 255H (91.4), Ryzen AI 9 365 (90) and Core i7-14700HX (89.8). Outscoring a Core i7-14700HX while sitting two points off flagship silicon is the practical story — near-top performance for upper-mid-range money.

What the chip brings

Dragon Range is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 design built on a 5 nm process and rated at 55 W in its HX-class configuration: a 3.6 GHz base clock and up to 5.1 GHz boost. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,621 single-core and 12,769 multi-core in Geekbench. Integrated graphics and memory support were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds — no practical loss, since the all-gaming roster carries its own discrete GPUs.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 69 of 69 cataloged games — including Starfield, the single most CPU-demanding entry on the list, plus Helldivers 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy at the heavy end. Nothing in the tracked catalog asks for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, so compare listings on the graphics card before anything else.

Laptops that carry it

The 5-model roster is uniformly 2023 gaming hardware, every listing at $922: Acer's Nitro 17 and Nitro 16, the Lenovo Legion Pro 5 Gen 8, and Dell's Alienware m16 and m18. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: a gaming index of 82 and performance index of 91.6 carried by strong discrete GPUs, office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency at 86.7 — while portability at 16.7 and mobility at 36 mark these as desk-first machines rather than commuters.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 7745HX is the value angle on 2023 Dragon Range silicon: the same 69-of-69 recommended-tier coverage as its 12-core sibling, in a roster where every listing sits at $922. For a used-gaming buyer the processor is a safe bet for years — decide between these five listings on GPU, RAM and condition, because the CPU is effectively a constant. The cost is the usual HX trade of bulk and a 55 W appetite in exchange for that headroom.