Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 300.00
$ 756.02 significantly less expensive
$ 1056.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points
6% slightly better overall score
4888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points
6523 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
4398 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
4293 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points
99% significantly higher Blender score
131.31 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6417 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points
1718 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
75% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
55% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
15 W
1000% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

896 KiB
75% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089
357th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 7 5825U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5825U is faster than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5825U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5825U outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X 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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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