AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel 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

9222 points
75% significantly better overall score
5256 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11293 points
38% slightly better gaming score
8162 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8539 points
91% significantly better multitasking score
4470 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8344 points
91% significantly better heavy workload score
4367 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
110% significantly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 1,126
337th of 1,126

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Core Ultra 7 356H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945HS is faster than the Core Ultra 7 356H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 356H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 356H has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945HS. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Core Ultra 7 356H also has slightly 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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