Ryzen 7 8845HS: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS is the Hawk Point take on AMD's premium thin-and-light line — an 8-core Zen 4 design from the 2023 Ryzen 8000 generation that became a staple of gaming and creator laptops. The catalog matches it to 34 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 68 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 8845HS sits in 2026

A catalog score of 86.3 places the chip 27th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top few percent of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood belongs almost entirely to 2023–2024 premium parts: the Ryzen 9 8945HS (87.2), Core Ultra 9 185H (87) and Ryzen 7 7840HS (86.5) just above, the Ryzen 9 PRO 7940HS (86) and Ryzen 7 PRO 7840HS (84.7) alongside, and the Core Ultra 7 268V (84.3) just below. Ranking within half a point of a Ryzen 9-branded sibling while carrying the same core count is the practical story — this is near-flagship territory without the flagship badge.

What the chip brings

Hawk Point-HS is an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 design built on a 4 nm process and rated at 45 W in its HS-class configuration: a 3.8 GHz base clock and up to 5.1 GHz boost. The integrated Radeon 780M runs at up to 2,700 MHz, which matters for the machines in this roster that ship without discrete graphics. In public benchmarks the chip posts 2,328 single-core and 11,017 multi-core in Geekbench. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, 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 68 of 69 cataloged games — from Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring and Hogwarts Legacy at the demanding end through Helldivers 2, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal and Counter-Strike 2 down to the lightest esports entries. Starfield is the single holdout, listing the chip above its minimum but below its recommended CPU requirement. 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 34-model roster leans gaming for 2024–2025: Victus 15 at $1,256, Acer Nitro V 16S AI at $1,440, OMEN 17 from $1,509 to $1,713, ASUS TUF Gaming A15 and A14 at $1,152, and Lenovo LOQ at $918. The workstation angle is covered by the HP ZBook Power 16 G11 at $1,408, while the ASUS Vivobook S 15 and S 16 OLED sit at the accessible end at $650 each. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 72 and a performance index of 80.5 reflect the discrete-GPU majority, while mobility at 48.5 and portability at 37.8 say these are substantial machines rather than ultrabooks.

Bottom line

The Ryzen 7 8845HS suits a buyer who wants one laptop for everything: processor headroom for effectively the entire tracked game catalog at recommended CPU settings, and a roster that runs from $650 Vivobooks to $1,700-class gaming rigs — judge gaming value by the specific GPU in each listing, not the CPU badge. The catalog's compare pages against the Ryzen 7 6800H, the Ryzen 7 5800H and the newer Ryzen AI 7 350 let you price each generational step precisely.