AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i5 8279U
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Apr 2023
May 2019
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Coffee Lake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon 780M
Iris Plus Graphics 655
Processor Number
-
i5-8279U
Package
Transistor Count
25 billions
-
Manufacturing Process
4 nm
14 nm
Socket
FP8
BGA-1528
Power Consumption
35-54 W
28 W
Peak Operating Temperature
100°C
100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
8
4
Performance Core Threads
16
8
Performance Core Base Frequency
4.0 GHz
2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
5.2 GHz
4.1 GHz
Total Core Count
8
4
Total Thread Count
16
8
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
40x
24x
L1 Cache
64 K per core
32 K per core
L2 Cache
8 MB
256 K per core
L3 Cache
16 MB
6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR5-5600, LPDDR5x-7500
DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Max Memory Size
256 GB
32 GB
Max Memory Channels
2
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
89.6 GB/s
37.5 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
true
true
GPU Base Frequency
800 MHz
300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
2800 MHz
1150 MHz
Shader Units
768
384
Texture Units
48
48
Raster Operation Units
32
6
Execution Units
12
48
Power Consumption
15
15 W
Max Resolution
7680x4320 - 60 Hz
4096x2304 - 60 Hz
AI Accelerator
NPU
AMD Ryzen™ AI
-
Theoretical performance
10 TOPS
-
Miscellaneous
📊 Benchmark
Cinebench R23
1,804
1,085
Cinebench R23
15,820
4,440
Geekbench 6
2,534
1,313
Geekbench 6
12,852
4,465
Cinebench 2024
70
-
Cinebench 2024
721
-
Passmark CPU
3,910
2,365
Passmark CPU
30,545
7,732
Geekbench 5
-
951
Geekbench 5
-
3,929
Blender
-
59