AMD Ryzen 5 7530U vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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

4604 points
5821 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6298 points
7228 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4083 points
5452 points
33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3956 points
5384 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.53 points
166.92 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5620 points
9022 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points
2060 points
26% slightly 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

2 GHz
3.30 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.1 GHz
13% 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

2
Identical
2

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

380th of 1,089
266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
Ryzen 7

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 7530U vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840HS beats the Ryzen 5 7530U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7530U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7530U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7530U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7530U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 7530U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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