Ryzen 9 7940HX: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 9 7940HX provides good benchmark performance at 30.58% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 9 7940HX sales 17 January 2024. This is a Dragon Range-HX (Zen 4) architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 16 cores and 32 threads, and is based on 5 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 5200 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FL1 processor with a TDP of 55 Watt. It supports DDR5 memory.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking161
Place by popularitynot in top-100
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Dragon Range (Zen 4, Ryzen 7045)
Power efficiency23.48of 100.00 (Apple M4 (8 cores))
DesignerAMD
ManufacturerTSMC
Architecture codenameDragon Range-HX (Zen 4) (2023−2024)
Release date17 January 2024 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

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 cores16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads32
Base clock speed2.4 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed5.2 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
L1 cache64 KB (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache64 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography5 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size2x 71 mm2
Maximum core temperature100 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Number of transistors13,140 millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 9 7940HX 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)
SocketFL1
Power consumption (TDP)55 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 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+
Precision Boost 2+

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 7940HX's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5

Graphics specifications

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

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon 610M (400 - 2200 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version5.0
PCI Express lanes28of 144 (Threadripper PRO 7955WX)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 9 7940HX. 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.

Ryzen 9 7940HX
30.58

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. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.

Ryzen 9 7940HX Samples: 295 53720

Geekbench 6.4 Multi-Core

Ryzen 9 7940HX 16094

Geekbench 6.3 Multi-Core

Ryzen 9 7940HX 16094

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 9 7940HX's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Ryzen 9 7940HX 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 7940HX is Core Ultra 9 275HX, which is faster by 5% and higher by 11 positions in our ranking.

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