AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

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
55% significantly better overall score
5821 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points
51% significantly better gaming score
7228 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points
54% significantly better multitasking score
5452 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points
52% significantly better heavy workload score
5384 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points
35% slightly higher Blender score
166.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9022 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2060 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
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed
5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
28 W
92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
266th 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 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HS beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7940HS thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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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