AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

2653 points

9048 points

241% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4214 points

10935 points

159% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2184 points

8413 points

285% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2097 points

8221 points

292% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3397 points

7779 points

128% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.99 points

225.40 points

325% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3985 points

18131 points

354% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3133 points

11485 points

266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points

2444 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.2 GHz

4.00 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

5.2 GHz

52% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

601st of 1,089

110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Ryzen 9 7940HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Ryzen 5 1400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1400 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1400. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7940HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1400. The Ryzen 9 7940HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.