AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs AMD 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
0.70% slightly better overall score
8985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points
2% slightly better gaming score
10717 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points
0.43% slightly better multitasking score
8377 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points
0.66% slightly better heavy workload score
8167 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7779 points
4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7434 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
172.18 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.80 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

110th of 1,089
111th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Ryzen 7 7840H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7840H performs better than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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.

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