AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

9859 points

8% slightly better overall score

9048 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

10935 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

8413 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

8221 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7779 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

225.40 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

13% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18131 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

11485 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

2444 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.00 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.2 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

54 W

94% significantly 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

94th of 1,089

110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 9 7940HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900X. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS.

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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.