AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Ryzen 9 8945HX vs Ryzen 9 9955HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Ryzen 9 9955HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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.