AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

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

6264 points
9048 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points
10935 points
42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points
8413 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points
8221 points
43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6544 points
7779 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points
225.40 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363 points
18131 points
26% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points
11485 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points
2444 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.3 GHz
4.00 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
20% slightly lower TDP
54 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

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

239th of 1,089
110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen 9 7940HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU because of its 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 9 7940HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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