AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

6160 points
2% slightly better overall score
6036 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7617 points
8066 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5691 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
5457 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5569 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
5345 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
166.92 points
3% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.30 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.1 GHz
10% 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
8 MiB
100% 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

256th of 1,118
261st of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
-

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 7 8840HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than 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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