AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs AMD Ryzen AI 7 350

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 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

31% slightly better overall score

8131 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

4% slightly better gaming score

10318 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

7432 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

7250 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points

123% significantly higher Blender score

204.54 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

6% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

28 W

96% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,118

154th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen AI 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Ryzen AI 7 350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Ryzen AI 7 350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen AI 7 350 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 AI 7 350 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI 7 350. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 7 350. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 7 350 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen AI 7 350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen AI 7 350 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.