AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 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

7025 points

9048 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8549 points

10935 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6518 points

8413 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6374 points

8221 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6835 points

7779 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.59 points

225.40 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15100 points

18131 points

20% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9459 points

11485 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1979 points

2444 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.30 GHz

4.00 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

20% slightly lower TDP

54 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

192nd of 1,089

110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Ryzen 9 7940HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 6900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU because of its slightly 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 7940HS has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.