AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Ryzen 5 8500G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840HS beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 8840HS CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 8500G CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8500G. 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 8840HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.