Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D 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.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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