AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

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

7869 points

1% slightly better overall score

7756 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

10179 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

6990 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

6806 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5705 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

169.90 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9309 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

0.64% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2179 points

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

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

28 W

274% 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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

156th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Ryzen 7 8840U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840U beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 8840U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8840U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.