Ryzen 7 9700X vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 9700X thanks to a 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 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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 9700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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