AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 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

4% slightly better overall score

10700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

10758 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

10731 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

10842 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

458.15 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.3 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

55 W

90% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

Identical

1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more 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.