AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845H

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

8535 points
5% slightly better overall score
8128 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8107 points
9840 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8825 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
7607 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9118 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
7454 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

468.88 points
119% significantly higher Blender score
213.16 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

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 1,089
145th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Ryzen 7 8845H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Ryzen 7 8845H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8845H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8845H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8845H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8845H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 8845H. 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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