Ryzen AI 9 HX 375: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 is a Strix Point flagship from the 2024 Ryzen AI 300 generation — a 12-core Zen 5 design that anchors the top of AMD's premium laptop line. The catalog matches it to 5 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in all 69 of the 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 AI 9 HX 375 sits in 2026

A catalog score of 93.6 places the chip 11th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top two percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is desktop-replacement territory: the Ryzen 9 7945HX (97.3), Core Ultra 9 285H (94.5) and Core i9-14900HX (94) just above, the Ryzen 9 7845HX (93.4), Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (92.4) and Ryzen 7 7745HX (91.5) just below. Holding rank among HX-class parts built for gaming rigs and mobile workstations — while rated at 28 W in its own HX configuration — is the practical story, and edging its sibling Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 by more than a point marks this as the faster bin of AMD's Strix Point silicon.

What the chip brings

Strix Point-HX is a 12-core, 24-thread Zen 5 design built on a 4 nm process, rated at 28 W in its HX-class configuration: a 2 GHz base clock and up to 5.1 GHz boost, with the generation's on-device AI processing on the die. The integrated graphics configuration was not captured for this chip. In public benchmarks it posts 2,637 single-core and 14,016 multi-core in Geekbench. Memory support and cache details were also not captured, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for all 69 cataloged games — including Starfield, the most CPU-demanding entry in the tracked list, alongside Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2 and Black Myth Wukong. Nothing in the catalog asks for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well still depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, so judge each listing by its graphics hardware.

Laptops that carry it

The 5-model roster is compact, all-HP and spans 2024–2025. Gaming and workstation machines lead: the Omen Max 16 at $1,629 for 2024 and $1,440 for the 2025 model, plus the ZBook 8 G1ak 14 workstation at $1,760, the most expensive laptop in this roster. The thin-and-light side covers the OmniBook Ultra 14 at $1,084 and the EliteBook X G1a 14 business machine at $1,007. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency 94.3, mobility 80 and a performance index of 71.5 reflect premium modern chassis, while a gaming index of 43 says the portfolio is balanced rather than gaming-first.

Bottom line

The Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 suits a buyer who wants a no-compromise processor in a modern machine: full recommended-tier clearance across the tracked game catalog, flagship efficiency figures, and a 2024–2025 roster that runs from a $1,007 EliteBook to a $1,760 ZBook workstation. The realistic caveat is GPU-side — with a gaming index of 43 across the fleet, gaming value depends almost entirely on which graphics hardware each listing pairs with the chip. Within the rank neighborhood, the step down to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 saves money at a measurable performance cost, while the 3.7-point gap to the Ryzen 9 7945HX above is only worth paying for if the workload demands it.