AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8854 points
3% slightly better overall score
8535 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9545 points
17% slightly better gaming score
8107 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8646 points
8825 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8600 points
9118 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
468.88 points
56% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
55 W
18% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
16 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,096
127th of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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