AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX

AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12933 points

51% significantly better overall score

8535 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10680 points

31% slightly better gaming score

8107 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13704 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

8825 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13985 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

9118 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

428.80 points

468.88 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.4 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

280 W

55 W

409% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

300% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

Identical

1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

Identical

64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

41st of 1,089

124th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000 WX-Series

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 March

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX vs Ryzen 9 8945HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX 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 Threadripper PRO 5955WX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 Threadripper PRO 5955WX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.