AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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

5419 points
8215 points
51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6732 points
10758 points
59% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5010 points
7390 points
47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4902 points
7189 points
46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.22 points
195.47 points
50% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11490 points
14873 points
29% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6209 points
10324 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1630 points
2258 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.30 GHz
65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.1 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
86% significantly lower TDP
28 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

302nd of 1,089
139th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 7 7730U vs Ryzen 7 7840U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7840U beats the Ryzen 7 7730U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7730U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7730U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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