AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

6179 points
6405 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
9018 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
5593 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
5403 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
153.60 points

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 GHz
3.50 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.9 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
28 W
25% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Ryzen 5 8640HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8640HS is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Also, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8640HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HS 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 5 8640HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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