AMD Ryzen 9 3900X laptop

While the AMD Zen 2 architecture brought Ryzen 9 processors to laptops for the first time, the market now offers a more ample selection of uncompromised performance and gaming notebooks based on the newer Ryzen 9 platforms.

Throughout 2021, the best Ryzen 9 laptops were based on the Zen3 Ryzen 5000 Cezanne series of mobile processors, with the Ryzen 9 5900HX on the most powerful models, and the highly efficient Ryzen 9 5980HS and 5900HS processors available on a handful of portable formats. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU option was also part the of Cezanne family, but never actually made it into real products.

Thats changing as of early-2022, though, with AMD launching the Zen3+ Ryzen 6000 Rembrandt series of mobile processors, with the Ryzen 9 6900HX and 6980HX variation as the new top of the stack, as well as potential HS more-efficient options [Ryzen 9 6980HS and Ryzen 9 6900HS to be updated].

There are few details on the Ryzen 6000 hardware available at this point, and Ill update the article once we know more, but down below Ill touch on a few of the specifics that you should expect with the Rembrandt platform in 2022 laptops.

This article will shed light on the specs and performance of these Ryzen 9 platforms, as well as provide a detailed list of all the laptops available on this sort of hardware.

As a whole, there are mostly two kinds of AMD Ryzen 9 powered laptops out there: those based on the full-power H and HX processors [6900HX, 5900HX, 4900H], with a design TDP of 45+W, and the thinner-and-lighter form-factors based on the HS subseries of Ryzen 9 mobile APUs [5900HS, 4900HS], premium and efficient bins with a TDP of 35+W. Of course, all these can run at various power settings, and their performance varies between each product, as its highly dependent on the quality of each implementation, the thermal module, and overall design. Youll find those particularities explained in our detailed reviews.

Were not going to thoroughly discuss benchmarks results in this article, but well touch on what you should generally expect from the latest Ryzen 9 processors in a bit, with more details on those previously mentioned reviews. And then well jump into those detailed lists of the available Ryzen 9 6900HX and Ryzen 9 5900HX/5900HS laptops, as well as those models launched in previous years and built on Ryzen 9 4900H/4900HS hardware, which are still available in stores, most likely with good discounts.

So first off, heres a quick specs sheet of the Zen3+, Zen 3 and Zen 2 Ryzen 9 H and HS processors:

We cannot properly discuss benchmarks and performance on the Ryzen 9 6000 mobile processors as of now. Well update in the following weeks once embargoes allow it.

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For now, here are some performance numbers for the Ryzen 9 5900HX and 5980HS mobile processors in comparison to the other options out there [these are AMD numbers]. Well update on the Ryzen 9 6000 numbers when available.

And here are some of our own findings on real products that you can find in stores. First, the Cinebench loop that tests the CPUs sustained multi-thread performance.

And here are a couple more tests:

This section includes the full-size notebooks built on the 45+W Ryzen 9 5900HX and 4900H hardware platforms. Ill update this section early into 2022 once the Ryzen 6000 platform is officially unveiled and I can share more details on the updated and the new designs available in the new year.

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Also, keep in mind that most of the AMD-based budget and mid-tier gaming laptops such as the Nitro 5, Legion 5, Legion 5 Pro, are not available with Ryzen 9 processors, and only top at AMD Ryzen 7 5800H/ AMD Ryzen 7 4800H configurations, which weve covered in this separate article.

Furthermore, most of the Eluktronics/Schenker/XMG/Aftershock models based on TongFang and Clevo barebone designs are also not available with Ryzen 9 5900HX processors at the time of this update, most likely due to allocation shortages with the current world situation. That should change in the next few months, and Im especially looking for a Ryzen 9 configuration of the Prometheus 17 model with the 150+W RTX 3080 GPU, currently the most powerful AMD notebook configuration available out there.

Some of these also have a MUX [indicated down below when available], which makes a big difference in games.

Ill also add that while most of these Rzeyn notebooks ship with Nvidia graphics, some models are now available with AMDs Radeon RX 6000M mobile graphics based on RDNA2. Check out this article for more details on the RX 6800M, 6700M, and 6600M chips.

Please keep in mind that were constantly working on updating these lists and adding new products as they are released, but errors might slip in despite our best efforts to keep things accurate. If you spot any mistake or any product that should be in here and is not, please let us know in the comments section down below.

Furthermore, if youre interested in the wider range of AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and Ryzen 7 4800H mid-range laptops that are available in stores these days, youll find them listed in this separate detailed article.

Weve also reviewed many of the available Ryzen 5000 and 4000 series notebooks here on the site, as well as compared the performance and benchmarks of the several Ryzen H processors and their Intel counterparts in these articles: one and two.