AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8854 points
4% slightly better overall score
8447 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9545 points
10377 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8646 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
7810 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8600 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
7629 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8096 points
4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7779 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
225.40 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10663 points
11485 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2128 points
2444 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
4.00 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,096
133rd of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

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