AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 7845HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7845HX beats the Ryzen 9 5950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7845HX. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7845HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7845HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7845HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7845HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.