AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core i5-14500T

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Core i5-14500T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14500T is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500T. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-14500T has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i5-14500T also has significantly more 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 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.