AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

4862 points
9048 points
86% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points
10935 points
65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points
8413 points
95% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points
8221 points
96% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4965 points
7779 points
56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points
225.40 points
93% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10416 points
18131 points
74% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points
11485 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points
2444 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
4.00 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
20% slightly lower TDP
54 W

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

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
110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Ryzen 5 5600H vs Ryzen 9 7940HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS 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.

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