AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

9048 points

10011 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points

11884 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points

9348 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points

9142 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7779 points

8010 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points

263.24 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18131 points

0.25% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18086 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points

15051 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points

2723 points

11% 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

4.00 GHz

4.20 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

122% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is faster than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.