AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 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

8204 points
8535 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9603 points
18% slightly better gaming score
8107 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7740 points
8825 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7593 points
9118 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

214.43 points
468.88 points
118% 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

3.80 GHz
51% significantly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.4 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
55 W
90% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
16 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

140th of 1,089
124th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 July
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 5800XT vs Ryzen 9 8945HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800XT that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800XT. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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 5800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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