AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD 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

11227 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

12120 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points

11094 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points

11316 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points

458.55 points

0.09% slightly higher Blender score

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 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% 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

65th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 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 MAX+ 395 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 performs better than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The info from our database shows that the RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 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.