Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 7940HS specs and performance
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7940HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7940HS 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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