AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

10008 points
14004 points
39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points
12364 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points
14599 points
57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points
14860 points
63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points
13984 points
55% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points
475.58 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19509 points
34613 points
77% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15168 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
14865 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2857 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2684 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points
16083 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2764 points

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

4.50 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
Identical
5.4 GHz

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

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% 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

89th of 1,089
31st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Ryzen 9 7945HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7945HX beats the Ryzen 7 7700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7945HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7700X 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 7945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X. The Ryzen 9 7945HX 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 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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