Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 7 7800X3D
2023
8 cores / 16 threads, 120 Watt
21.57
+15%
Ryzen 9 8945HS
2023
8 cores / 16 threads, 45 Watt
18.76

Ryzen 7 7800X3D outperforms Ryzen 9 8945HS by a moderate 15% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking249321
Place by popularity12not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation38.31no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Power efficiency17.0139.45
Architecture codenameRaphael (Zen4) (2022−2023)Hawk Point-HS (Zen 4) (2023−2024)
Release date4 January 2023 (1 year ago)6 December 2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads1616
Base clock speed4.4 GHz4 GHz
Boost clock speed5 GHz5.2 GHz
Bus rate162 MHzno data
L1 cache64K (per core)64 KB (per core)
L2 cache1 MB (per core)1 MB (per core)
L3 cache96 MB (shared)16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography5 nm4 nm
Die size71 mm2178 mm2
Maximum core temperature89 °C100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)61 °Cno data
Number of transistors6,570 million25,000 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility+no data
Unlocked multiplier+-

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS compatibility with other computer components: 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 configuration11
SocketAM5FP8
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A,-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, AVX2, AVX512, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA3, AMD64, EVP, AMD-V, SMAP, SMEP, SMT SHA, XFR2, Precision Boost 2Ryzen 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++
Precision Boost 2++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR5-5200DDR5

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000) (400 - 2200 MHz)AMD Radeon 780M ( - 2800 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Ryzen 9 8945HS.

PCIe version5.04.0
PCI Express lanes2420

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score 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 7 7800X3D 21.57
+15%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 18.76

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 34267
+15%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 29804

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 2726
+14.9%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 2373

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 15156
+30.5%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 11611

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8026
+3.1%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 7786

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 51950
+5.4%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 49299

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 16892
+6.3%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 15894

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 2.44
+79.5%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 4.38

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 33
+7.7%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 31

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

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

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 2879
+8.3%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 2659

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 282
+0.2%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 281

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 3.43
+0.3%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 3.42

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 15.3
Ryzen 9 8945HS 15.4
+0.3%

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.

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 16585
+17.6%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 14109

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.  

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 169
+12.3%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 151

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.  

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 344
+15.4%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 298

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 12715
+2.8%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 12368

Blender(-)

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 178
Ryzen 9 8945HS 192
+7.9%

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 1920
Ryzen 9 8945HS 1965
+2.3%

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 7824
+25.2%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 6250

7-Zip

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 80313
+12%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 71704

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 353
+11.7%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 316

CrossMark Overall

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 2216
+21.1%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 1830

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 282
+8.5%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 260

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 283
Ryzen 9 8945HS 312
+10.4%

Geekbench 6.3 Multi-Core

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 14288
+7.6%
Ryzen 9 8945HS 13283

Geekbench 6.3 Single-Core

Ryzen 7 7800X3D 2634
Ryzen 9 8945HS 2684
+1.9%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 21.57 18.76
Integrated graphics card 4.43 18.32
Recency 4 January 2023 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 45 Watt

Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a 15% higher aggregate performance score.

Ryzen 9 8945HS, on the other hand, has 313.5% faster integrated GPU, an age advantage of 11 months, a 25% more advanced lithography process, and 166.7% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 7 7800X3D is our recommended choice as it beats the Ryzen 9 8945HS in performance tests.

Note that Ryzen 7 7800X3D is a desktop processor while Ryzen 9 8945HS is a notebook one.


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