AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

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

5% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

23% slightly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points

10760 points

0.27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points

11072 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

367.23 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.30 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

90% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

Identical

1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

64 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

75th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

2024 July

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 9 5900XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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.