AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Ryzen 9 7945HX3D vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7945HX3D CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9700X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D 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 7945HX3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.