AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Xeon Gold 6140

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 18 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

9257 points

9575 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11296 points

83% significantly better gaming score

6158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8584 points

10863 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

11703 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.59 points

256.88 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11517 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8683 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2372 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1111 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

74% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

211% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

18 MiB

125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24.75 MiB

54% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 1,089

98th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Xeon Gold 6140 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6140 beats the Ryzen 9 8945HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6140 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6140. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 8945HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6140 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6140 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Xeon Gold 6140 also has significantly more 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.