AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i7-13800H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 14 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

9048 points

9209 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points

11569 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points

8514 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points

8394 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

192.82 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18131 points

3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

17591 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

Identical

5.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

11.5 MiB

43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 1,089

106th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i7-13800H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better than the Core i7-13800H. Despite this, the Core i7-13800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13800H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13800H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i7-13800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.