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AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Ryzen 7 170

58 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
VS
52 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 170
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
AMD Ryzen 7 170

We compared two 8-core laptop CPUs: the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS against the 3.2 GHz Ryzen 7 170. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 170 and 8840HS
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 6 nanometers
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 3.4 TFLOPS
  • 25% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2551 vs 2045 points
  • 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.75 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 170
  • Newer - released 1 year and 10 months later

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Ryzen 7 8840HS
vs
Ryzen 7 170

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Ryzen 7 8840HS +25%
2551
Ryzen 7 170
2045
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 7 8840HS
9653
Ryzen 7 170 +5%
10126
File compression 714.9 MB/sec 955 MB/sec
Clang compilation 87.9 Klines/sec 73.5 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 182.5 pages/sec 216.2 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 280.1 Mpixels/sec 302.6 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 271.4 pages/sec 202.8 pages/sec
Background blur 44.8 images/sec 48.6 images/sec
Photo processing 70.1 images/sec 84.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 19.2 Mpixels/sec 18.4 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 308 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Ryzen 7 8840HS +15%
3582
Ryzen 7 170
3119
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 7 8840HS +19%
24625
Ryzen 7 170
20609
Integer math 88.4 GOps/sec 79.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 51.6 GOps/sec 44.7 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 78M Primes/sec 48M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 35.3M Strings/sec 27.7M Strings/sec
Data encryption 17.5 GBytes/sec 15.9 GBytes/sec
Data compression 289.2 MBytes/sec 265.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1153 Frames/sec 877 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 20.4B Matrices/sec 18.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 768 & 99 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Ryzen 7 8840HS
167.7
Ryzen 7 170 +2%
170.68

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 22.6 PPW 13.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 321.8 PPW 187.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 820.8 PPW 381.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 5.59 PPW 3.16 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS and Ryzen 7 170

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released December 6, 2023 October 1, 2025
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 4 (Hawk Point) Zen 3+ (Rembrandt)
Integrated GPU Radeon 780M Radeon 680M
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (75th and 97th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 8 8
P-Threads 16 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.3 GHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 4.75 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8 8
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 33x 32x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1MB (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 16MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors 25 billions -
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
TDP (PL1) 20-30 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Socket FP8 FP7
Peak Temperature 100°C 95°C
Laptop processors ranking (120th and 175th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Radeon 780M Radeon 680M
GPU Base Clock 800 MHz 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2700 MHz 2200 MHz
Shading Units 768 768
TMUs 48 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 12 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Ryzen 7 8840HS +21%
4.1 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 170
3.4 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 680M compared to Radeon 780M

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500		 - DDR5-4800
- LPDDR5-6400
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 64 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 76.8 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS official page AMD Ryzen 7 170 official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 20

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Total votes: 11

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Comments

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