Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 vs. Ryzen AI 9 HX 370: More expensive but barely any faster

Laptops and mini PCs with the new Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 are now becoming widely available to supplant last year's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. The HX series represents some of the fastest mobile CPUs in AMD's lineup and so the new 470 has a lot to live up to. In practice, however, this year's refresh is arguably a holdover in terms of performance and features.

As shown by the benchmarks below, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 in the recently released Bosgame VTA-439 mini PC is only about 7 percent faster than the average system in our database equipped with last year's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. In many cases, gaming laptops with the 370 may perform within 1 percent of the new 470 due to their larger and more capable cooling solutions.

Similar results can be drawn when comparing the gaming performance of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 to the Ryzen AI 9 370. Their paper specifications show identical Radeon 890M graphics and features between the two processors but with just slightly faster target clock rates for the 470. Any advantages with the newer CPU will be hardly noticeable to the vast majority of users.

Buyers in the market for a new PC may want to consider systems with the older Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 to save on costs since the newer Ryzen AI 9 470 is little more than a rebrand of last year's option. More benchmarks and comparisons can be found on our review of the Bosgame VTA-439.