AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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

11194 points
92% significantly better overall score
5821 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
37% slightly better gaming score
7228 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
113% significantly better multitasking score
5452 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
119% significantly better heavy workload score
5384 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
143% significantly higher Blender score
166.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9022 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2060 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.1 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
28 W
274% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

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

66th of 1,089
266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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