Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX 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.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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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