AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

6405 points
3% slightly better overall score
6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9018 points
14% slightly better gaming score
7894 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5593 points
5606 points
0.23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5403 points
5474 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

153.60 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
148.55 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7982 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7407 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1713 points

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

3.50 GHz
29% slightly higher clock speed
2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W
15 W
86% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

227th of 1,089
242nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 8640HS vs Ryzen 7 6800U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 6800U performs better than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 6800U. Also, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 8640HS thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 6800U. 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 8640HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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