AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS 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

8878 points
10700 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10890 points
1% slightly better gaming score
10758 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8202 points
10731 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8008 points
10842 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

244.42 points
458.15 points
87% 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

3.80 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
5.3 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
1% slightly 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

8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
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

116th 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

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 7 7840HS vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS 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 7 7840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 7 7840HS also has significantly more 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 7840HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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