AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 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
28% slightly better overall score
7028 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points
30% slightly better gaming score
8379 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points
27% slightly better multitasking score
6623 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
6517 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
164.73 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18131 points
40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
12929 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9396 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2142 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

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
191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2023 June

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 PRO 7840U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HS is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 PRO 7840U. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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.

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