AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7000 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

7171 points
10700 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8669 points
10758 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6668 points
10731 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6519 points
10842 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

173.76 points
458.15 points
163% 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

3.1 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.3 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
22% slightly lower TDP
55 W

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
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

189th of 1,104
76th of 1,104

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7000 Series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 7 7435HS vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7435HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7435HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7435HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7435HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7435HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7435HS 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 7435HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7435HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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