AMD Ryzen 5 5600H 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

4862 points

5821 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

7228 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

5452 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

5384 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

166.92 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

9022 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

2060 points

29% 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

3.3 GHz

3.30 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.1 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

28 W

60% significantly lower TDP

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

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th 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 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 Ryzen 5 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.