AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

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
7756 points
43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6732 points
10179 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5010 points
6990 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4902 points
6806 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.22 points
169.90 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6209 points
9309 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1630 points
2179 points
33% 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
156th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Ryzen 7

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 8840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840U performs better than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7730U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7730U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 8840U CPU because of its 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 7 8840U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7730U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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