AMD Ryzen 5 5560U vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

4837 points

5821 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6909 points

7228 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4216 points

5452 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4083 points

5384 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.14 points

166.92 points

61% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6293 points

9022 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1663 points

2060 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz

3.30 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.1 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

28 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% 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

361st of 1,089

266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 5560U vs Ryzen 7 8840HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5560U is faster than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5560U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Ryzen 7 8840HS 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 5560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.