AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

4528 points

5821 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points

7228 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points

5452 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points

5384 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points

166.92 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points

9022 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

2060 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

34% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

28 W

239% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% 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

386th of 1,089

266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700X beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 1700X. 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.