AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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
10700 points
97% 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
10731 points
114% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4902 points
10842 points
121% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.22 points
458.15 points
251% 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

2 GHz
2.9 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

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

15 W
266% significantly 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

302nd of 1,089
75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
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

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 7 7730U vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7730U is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7730U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 7730U 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 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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