AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX vs AMD Ryzen AI 7 350

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 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

4% slightly better overall score

8140 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8107 points

10346 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8825 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

7437 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9118 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

7255 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

468.88 points

129% significantly higher Blender score

204.54 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

25% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

5 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

143rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen AI 300 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 AI 7 350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Ryzen AI 7 350 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 7 350 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 AI 7 350 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI 7 350. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 7 350. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 7 350 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 AI 7 350. 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.