AMD Ryzen 9 9900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Ryzen 9 9900X vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 9900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 9900X 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 9900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.