AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i5-1334U

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i5-1334U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better than the Core i5-1334U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1334U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1334U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has more threads than the Core i5-1334U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1334U. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1334U. The Ryzen 9 7940HS also has slightly 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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.