AMD EPYC 74F3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD 9 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

5669 points
10700 points
88% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7130 points
10758 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5211 points
10731 points
105% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5104 points
10842 points
112% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.28 points
458.15 points
236% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

9
16
77% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

18
32
77% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.19 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

240 W
55 W
336% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
1024 KiB
77% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4.5 MiB
12% slightly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 1,089
75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

EPYC 74F3 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the EPYC 74F3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores with 9 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than EPYC 74F3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 EPYC 74F3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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