AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

10982 points

2% slightly better overall score

10700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points

21% slightly better gaming score

10758 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points

10731 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points

10842 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points

458.15 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

62% significantly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

5.3 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

55 W

118% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

1024 KiB

60% 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

96 MiB

1100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

70th of 1,089

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 9800X3D thanks to a 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 9800X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D also has significantly more 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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.