AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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

5963 points
10700 points
79% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7413 points
10758 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5498 points
10731 points
95% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5377 points
10842 points
101% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

161.72 points
458.15 points
183% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.3 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
22% slightly lower TDP
55 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1024 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

251st of 1,089
75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800H beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5800H also has significantly more 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 7 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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