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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 3800X. Specifications, performance, tests

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2023-02-28
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
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AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
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What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX or AMD Ryzen 7 3800X? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX has a base frequency of 2.5 GHz. 16 / 32 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 55 W. Released in 2023-02-28.

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X has a base frequency of 3.9 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 105 W. Released in 2019-07-07.

Differences

  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    17 left arrow place
  • More number of cores

    8 more cores

    16 left arrow 8
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 20% higher specified turbo frequency

    5.4 GHz left arrow 4.5 GHz
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    55 W left arrow 105 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    19 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    16 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    18 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    13 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    5 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    6 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    11 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    26 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    663 place
  • Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
    9 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    9 place
  • Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
    6 place
  • Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
    8 place
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    91 left arrow place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 56% better clock speed

    3.9 GHz left arrow 2.5 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 3800X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    132 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    94 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    102 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    98 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    74 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    117 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    217 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    152 place
  • Monero Hashrate kH/s
    29 place
  • Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
    34 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    92 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 7045 left arrow AMD Ryzen 3000
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Ryzen
  • Form Factor
    Laptops / Desktops left arrow Desktops / Boxed Processor
  • Generation
    6 left arrow 3
  • Segment
    Mobile left arrow Desktop / Server
  • Series
    Ryzen 7000 Series left arrow Ryzen 3000 Series
  • Successor
    - left arrow AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

  • Base Frequency
    2.5 GHz left arrow 3.9 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • Core Configuration
    16x Zen 4 left arrow -
  • CPU Cores
    16 left arrow 8
  • CPU Threads
    32 left arrow 16
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    5.4 GHz left arrow 4.5 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    5.4 GHz left arrow 4.5 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    - left arrow 4.2 GHz
IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

  • DirectX Version
    12 left arrow -
  • Execution units
    2 left arrow -
  • Generation
    9 left arrow -
  • GPU Frequency
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • GPU name
    AMD Radeon 610M left arrow None
  • GPU Turbo
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • Graphics Cores
    2 left arrow -
  • Max. displays
    3 left arrow -
  • Max. GPU Memory
    8 GB left arrow -
  • Release date
    Q3/2022 left arrow -
  • Shader
    128 left arrow -
  • Technology
    6 nm left arrow -
Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

  • AV1
    Decode left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • JPEG
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • VC-1
    Decode left arrow No
  • VP8
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • VP9
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 3800X and AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    128 GB left arrow 128 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    83.2 GB/s left arrow -
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR5 left arrow DDR4
  • PCIe
    PCIe 5.0 left arrow PCIe 4.0 x16
  • PCIe lanes
    - left arrow 20
  • PCIe version
    - left arrow 4.0
  • System Memory Specification
    - left arrow 3200
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and AMD Ryzen 7 3800X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

  • Configurable TDP
    55-75 W left arrow -
  • Default TDP
    55 W left arrow 105 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    100 °C left arrow 95 °C
  • TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
    55 W left arrow -
  • TDP up
    75 W left arrow -
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    - left arrow 105 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Dragon Range (Zen 4) left arrow Matisse (Zen 2)
  • Chip design
    Chiplet left arrow -
  • Codename
    Dragon Range left arrow Matisse
  • Documents
    Technical data sheet left arrow -
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • L2-Cache
    16 MB left arrow 4 MB
  • L3-Cache
    64 MB left arrow 32 MB
  • Operating systems
    Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux left arrow Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
  • Part Number
    100-000000870 left arrow -
  • Release date
    2023-02-28 left arrow 2019-07-07
  • Socket
    FL1 left arrow AM4
  • Technology
    TSMC 5nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 7nm FinFET
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • L1-Cache
    - left arrow 0.5 MB
  • Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
    - left arrow 100-100000025BOX
  • Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
    - left arrow 100-100000025MPK
  • Manufacturer product ID (tray)
    - left arrow 100-000000025

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 1

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 7 3800XResult difference¹
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 500.99351 samples/min Submissions: 5 194.795355 samples/min Submissions: 7 -61.1 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

Cinebench 2024 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 1828 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench 2024 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 114 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 10M / 32 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 20817.46002 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 10M / 32 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Duration: 480.366 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

Cinebench R23 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 33459 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R23 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 1942 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R20 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 13057 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R20 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 760 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R15 / multiple threads

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 5289 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Cinebench R15 / single thread

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX 311 points System: Minisforum BD790i
CPU / power label: R9 7945HX 100 W / 100 W
Graphics: Radeon 610M
RAM: 64 GB
Exact test build and complete conditions are unreported; no ranking position.

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and AMD Ryzen 7 3800X.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1955.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
1325.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

32788.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
12874.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 SC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

758.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
509.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 MC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

12914.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
4960.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
The Cinebench R15 SC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware

Higher values are better in this metric.

312.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
209.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
The Cinebench R15 MC stresses the computing modules of a desktop or laptop computer to their limits and accurately determines the key performance parameters of the hardware

Higher values are better in this metric.

5597.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
2165.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

2130.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
1271.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

19472.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
9065.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
Blender is Open Source Software, creating predefined 3D scenes and measuring the time to execute them

Lower values are better; time in seconds.

94.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
167.600000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
PassMark is a test suite that performs complex mathematical calculations to determine CPU performance on file compression, encryption and physics-related tasks

Higher values are better in this metric.

58842.000000
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
24570.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X

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