Ryzen 9 7940HS: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregated performance score

Ryzen 9 7940HS
2023
8 cores / 16 threads
19.74

It provides poor benchmark performance at 19.74% of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.

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Summary

AMD started Ryzen 9 7940HS sales on January 2023. This is a Phoenix-HS (Zen 4) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 4 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 5200 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP8 processor with a TDP of 35 Watt. It supports DDR5, DDR5 memory.

General info

Ryzen 9 7940HS processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in performance ranking253
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
Architecture codenamePhoenix-HS (Zen 4)
Release dateJanuary 2023 (1 year old)

Technical specs

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads16
Base clock speed4 GHzof 4.7 (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed5.2 GHzof 6.2 (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 96 (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX)
L3 cache16 MB (shared)of 768 (EPYC 7373X)
Chip lithography4 nmof 3 (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size178 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors25,000 millionof 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplierNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 9 7940HS compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketFP8
Power consumption (TDP)35 Wattof 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 7940HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR5-5600/LPDDR5x-7500 RAM (incl. ECC), PCIe 4, Ryzen AI, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI+
FMA+
AVX+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 7940HS's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5, DDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 7940HS.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon 780M

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5 (Core i9-12900K)
PCI Express lanes20of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 9 7940HS. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 9 7940HS 19.74

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 30528

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 2464

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 11583

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 7881

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 48914

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 15689

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 30

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 2663

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 284

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 3.4

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 15

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 7465

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 299

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 7940HS 146

Gaming performance

Relative performance

Overall Ryzen 9 7940HS performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook CPUs.


Ryzen 9 7940H 100.61
Ryzen 9 7940HS 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 7940HS is Core i9-13905H, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 3 positions in our ranking.

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Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 9 7940HS:

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Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

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Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 9 7940HS, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 9 7940HS in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 2990 configurations based on Ryzen 9 7940HS in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
20.6% (616/2990)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.7% (22/2990)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
1.5% (46/2990)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.7% (20/2990)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.7% (21/2990)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.07% (2/2990)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.03% (1/2990)

User Ratings

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