Ryzen 5 8645HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS is the mid-tier take on Hawk Point — a 6-core Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 8000 generation that brought the platform to cheaper gaming and everyday laptops. The catalog matches it to 25 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 47 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 5 8645HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 56.1 places the chip 207th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the middle of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood spans eras and price points alike: the Ryzen 5 240 (56.5), Pentium Gold G7400T (56.2) and Core i7-8557U (56.2) just above, the Core Ultra 5 135H (56) and Core i5-13500H (55.1) alongside, and the Core Ultra 7 365 (55.1) just below. Six chips spread across barely 1.4 points is the story — the mid-table is compressed, and this chip lands in the same breath as entry silicon from older years and efficiency-minded Core Ultra parts from newer ones.

What the chip brings

Hawk Point-HS is a 6-core, 12-thread Zen 4 design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 45 W in its HS-class configuration: a 4.3 GHz base clock and up to 5.0 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon 760M runs at up to 2,600 MHz, the key enabler for the everyday laptops in this roster that ship without discrete graphics. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 22,039.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 47 of 69 cataloged games — Metro Exodus, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Returnal, Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong and The Last of Us Part 1 among them, down to Civilization 6 at the light end. Twenty more sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite and Counter-Strike 2 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Starfield and Helldivers 2 fall below the minimum tier outright. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and that is where the machines carrying this chip vary most.

Laptops that carry it

The 25-model roster is 2024-heavy with a 2025 entry at the top: the Victus 15-fb001nr at $1,256, flanked by OMEN 17 machines at $1,509 and $1,713, a Victus 16 at $1,412 and the HP ZBook Power 16 G11 at $1,408 on the workstation side. The gaming midrange runs through Lenovo's LOQ 15AHP9 at $918 and Acer's Nitro 14, Nitro 16 and Nitro 17 at $1,152 each, while everyday machines anchor the value end — the IdeaPad 5 2-in-1 at $656, the IdeaPad Slim 5 at $674 and the Acer Aspire 15 at $650. Roster medians describe the fleet, not the chip: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 71.5 and a performance index of 76.7 are carried largely by the discrete-GPU machines in the lineup, while mobility at 47.5 and portability at 37.6 make this a more carry-friendly spread than most gaming rosters.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 5 8645HS is an honest mid-tier chip for everyday-first buyers: recommended-tier CPU readiness for 47 tracked games and minimum-tier clearance for most of the rest, in laptops that run from $650-class IdeaPad and Aspire machines to $1,700-class OMEN 17s. It is not the pick for the heaviest new titles — Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this — so treat each listing's GPU and RAM as the primary value question and the CPU as the dependable middle of the equation.