AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 16 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

10700 points

10831 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

12542 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

10318 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

10235 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

278.01 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

24 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

30 MiB

274% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

75th of 1,089

72nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14650HX beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14650HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14650HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i7-14650HX 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 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.