AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Phenom II X4 980 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Phenom II X4 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 980 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 980. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 980. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 980. The Ryzen 9 7940HS 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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.