Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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 9950X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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 9950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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