Ryzen 9 8940HX: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 9 8940HX provides good benchmark performance at 29.05% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX.
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Summary
AMD started Ryzen 9 8940HX sales 23 April 2025. This is a Dragon Range 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 5300 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 8940HX processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 195 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Power efficiency | 56.63 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Designer | AMD | |
| Manufacturer | TSMC | |
| Architecture codename | Dragon Range (2025) | |
| Release date | 23 April 2025 (less than a 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 cores | 16 (Hexadeca-Core) | |
| Threads | 32 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.4 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9945WX) |
| Boost clock speed | 5.3 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 64 KB (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 1 MB (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 64 MB (shared) | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 5 nm | of 3 nm (EPYC 9965) |
| Die size | 2x 71 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 13,140 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 configuration | 1 | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H) |
| Socket | FL1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 55 Watt | of 512 KB + 4 MB (Core i3-8121U) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 8940HX. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| 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 8940HX's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR5 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 8940HX.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 610M |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 5.0 | |
| PCI Express lanes | 28 | of 144 (Threadripper PRO 7955WX) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 9 8940HX. 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.
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.
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.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 8940HX is Core Ultra 7 255HX, which is slower by 3% and lower by 11 positions in our ranking.
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Similar processors
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Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 9 8940HX, according to our PC configuration statistics.
These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 9 8940HX in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 897 configurations using Ryzen 9 8940HX in our database.
