AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

89% significantly better overall score

5654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

42% slightly better gaming score

7570 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points

112% significantly better multitasking score

5051 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points

120% significantly better heavy workload score

4922 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points

242% significantly higher Blender score

133.69 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

15 W

266% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,118

296th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 8940HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U 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.