AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs AMD 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

8985 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points

1% slightly better gaming score

10717 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points

8377 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points

8167 points

0.49% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

172.18 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

115th of 1,089

111th of 1,089

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Ryzen 7 7840H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7840H performs better than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7840H. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.