Ryzen 9 7940HX: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 9 7940HX provides good benchmark performance at 35.14% of a leader's which is a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX.
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 maximum frequency of 5200 MHz and a locked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is 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 ranking | 109 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Series | AMD Dragon Range (Zen 4, Ryzen 7045) | |
| Architecture codename | Dragon Range-HX (Zen 4) (2023−2024) | |
| Release date | 17 January 2024 (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 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 5.2 GHz | of 50 MHz (i486DX-50) |
| L1 cache | 1 MB | of 7475.2 KB (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 16 MB | of 86016 KB (EPYC 9634) |
| L3 cache | 64 MB | of 1179648 KB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 5 nm | of 0.18 µm (K6-2+/450ACZ) |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | of 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H) |
| Number of transistors | 9900 Million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + |
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.
| Socket | FL1 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 55 Watt | of 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 extensions | 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 | + |
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 types | DDR5 |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 7940HX.
| Integrated graphics card | AMD Radeon 610M |
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. 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.
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.
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 7940HX is Core i9-13980HX, which is slower by 12% and lower by 29 positions in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 9 7940HX in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 32 configurations using Ryzen 9 7940HX in our database.
