Intel Core i9-9940X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845H

Core i9-9940X vs Ryzen 7 8845H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9940X beats the Ryzen 7 8845H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8845H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8845H. Indeed, the Core i9-9940X has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8845H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8845H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8845H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9940X.

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 i9-9940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.