AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Ryzen 9 8945HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Ryzen 7 7700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700X. 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 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.