Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Ryzen 7 260 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Ryzen 7 260 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 260 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 260. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 260. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 260. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 260 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 260 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 8945HX thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 260. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.
Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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