AMD Ryzen 7 8840U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

7756 points
2% slightly better overall score
7598 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10179 points
10348 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6990 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
6695 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6806 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
6473 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.90 points
199.09 points
17% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
4.00 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

155th of 1,089
161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 7 8840U vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840U performs better than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 8840U has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8840U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U.

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 8840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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