AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Xeon Platinum 8170M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Platinum 8170M performs better than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has significantly more 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.