Intel Core i7-7820X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5865 points

10700 points

82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7275 points

10758 points

47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5393 points

10731 points

98% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5258 points

10842 points

106% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.28 points

458.15 points

177% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

5.3 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

55 W

154% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

1024 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

11 MiB

37% slightly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

262nd of 1,089

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7820X vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7820X is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Core i7-7820X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.