AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 8000 Series 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

0.97% slightly better overall score

8453 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8107 points

10343 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8825 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

7801 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9118 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

7601 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

468.88 points

152% significantly higher Blender score

185.57 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.50 GHz

3.30 GHz

31% slightly 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

28 W

96% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

127th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen PRO 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS 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 PRO 8840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 8945HX thanks to a 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 Ryzen 9 8945HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.