AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Ryzen 5 9600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 9600X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.