AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

9257 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10935 points

11296 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8413 points

8584 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8221 points

8392 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7779 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7691 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

225.40 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

212.59 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11485 points

11517 points

0.28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2444 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2372 points

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

Identical

4.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

Identical

5.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

45 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

104th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Ryzen 9 8945HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7940HS performs better than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HS in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 9 7940HS and Ryzen 9 8945HS have the same clock speed. 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.