AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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

8895 points

10700 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points

0.82% slightly better gaming score

10758 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points

10731 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points

10842 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points

458.15 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

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

4.00 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

121st of 1,118

78th of 1,118

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 8945H vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 8940HX performs better than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 8945H 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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.