AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 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

7430 points

9048 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

10935 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

8413 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

8221 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points

7779 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

225.40 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13788 points

18131 points

31% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points

11485 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points

2444 points

21% slightly 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

3.8 GHz

4.00 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

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

168th of 1,089

110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Ryzen 9 7940HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G. 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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.