AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Xeon Platinum 8170M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Platinum 8170M beats the Ryzen 9 8945HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945HS 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 Platinum 8170M. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Xeon Platinum 8170M 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.