AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Xeon Platinum 8170M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8940HX is faster than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Xeon Platinum 8170M 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.