AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 200 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

8895 points
2% slightly better overall score
8670 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points
7% slightly better gaming score
10061 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points
0.80% slightly better multitasking score
8212 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points
0.79% slightly better heavy workload score
8063 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points
115% significantly higher Blender score
104.21 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.80 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

117th of 1,105
123rd of 1,105

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Ryzen 7 260 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945H beats the Ryzen 7 260 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 260 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 260. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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