AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8535 points
3% slightly better overall score
8230 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8107 points
9806 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8825 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
7715 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9118 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
7566 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

468.88 points
349% significantly higher Blender score
104.21 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz
3.80 GHz
51% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W
45 W
22% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 1,092
140th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Ryzen 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

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