Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

Last updated:

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) AMD Ryzen 7 7840H

CPU comparison

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) or AMD Ryzen 7 7840H - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.40 GHz. Up to 8 GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) was released in Q3/2023.

The AMD Ryzen 7 7840H has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 5.10 GHz. The CPU supports up to 256 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 7840H was released in Q1/2023.
Broadcom BCM (3) Family AMD Ryzen 7 (68)
Broadcom BCM2712 (1) CPU group AMD Ryzen 7040 (21)
5 Generation 6
Cortex-A76 Architecture Phoenix (Zen 4)
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) is 1.00 GHz (2.40 GHz) while the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H has 8 CPU cores and 16 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H is at 3.80 GHz (5.10 GHz).

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
4 Cores 8
4 Threads 16
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
Yes Overclocking ? No
1.00 GHz Frequency 3.80 GHz
2.40 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 5.10 GHz
2.40 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 4.25 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
-- AI hardware AMD Ryzen AI
-- AI specifications AMD dedicated AI XDNA Technology

Internal Graphics

The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) or AMD Ryzen 7 7840H has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

Broadcom VideoCore VII GPU AMD Radeon 780M
0.80 GHz GPU frequency 0.80 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 2.70 GHz
-- GPU Generation 3
16 nm Technology 4 nm
2 Max. displays 4
8 Compute units 12
128 Shader 768
No Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation AMD FSR
4 GB Max. GPU Memory 32 GB
-- DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Broadcom VideoCore VII GPU AMD Radeon 780M
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec AVC Decode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) can use up to 8 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 17.1 GB/s. The AMD Ryzen 7 7840H supports up to 256 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 120.0 GB/s.

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
LPDDR4X-4266 Memory DDR5-4800, DDR5-5600, LPDDR5-6400, LPDDR5X-7500
8 GB Max. Memory 256 GB
1 (Single Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
17.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 120.0 GB/s
No ECC Yes
2.00 MB L2 Cache 8.00 MB
2.00 MB L3 Cache 16.00 MB
2.0 PCIe version 4.0
4 PCIe lanes 20
2.0 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) is 12 W, while the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H has a TDP of 54 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
12 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 54 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 60 W
-- TDP down 35 W
88 °C Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) is manufactured in 16 nm and has 4.00 MB cache. The AMD Ryzen 7 7840H is manufactured in 4 nm and has a 24.00 MB cache.

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
16 nm Technology 4 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
-- Socket FP8
None Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
No AES-NI Yes
Windows 11 (ARM), Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q3/2023 Release date Q1/2023
79 $ Release price --
show more data show more data


Rate these processors

Here you can rate the Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 4.0 stars (21 ratings). Rate now:
Here you can rate the AMD Ryzen 7 7840H to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 4.8 stars (27 ratings). Rate now:


Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) (32%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) (14%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
574 (31%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
1857 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1635 (14%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 4.25 GHz
11334 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
787 (32%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
2456 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1747 (14%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 4.25 GHz
12135 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
Broadcom VideoCore VII @ 0.80 GHz
120 (3%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
AMD Radeon 780M @ 2.70 GHz
4201 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
1757 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 4.25 GHz
15930 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 4.25 GHz
28412 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 4.25 GHz
624 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 1.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
6744 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).
Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
4C 4T @ 1.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 7840H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
10 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
Raspberry Pi 5 B Unknown

Popular comparisons containing this CPUs

1. Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)Intel Processor N100 Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) vs Intel Processor N100
2. AMD Ryzen 7 7840HAMD Ryzen 7 7840HS AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS
3. Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)Intel Core i5-8250U Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) vs Intel Core i5-8250U
4. Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)Intel Processor N95 Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) vs Intel Processor N95
5. Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711) Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) vs Raspberry Pi 4 B (Broadcom BCM2711)
6. Intel Core Ultra 7 155HAMD Ryzen 7 7840H Intel Core Ultra 7 155H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H
7. Intel Celeron N5105Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Intel Celeron N5105 vs Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
8. AMD Ryzen 7 7840HAMD Ryzen 9 7940H AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940H
9. Apple M1Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) Apple M1 vs Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712)
10. Intel Core i7-13620HAMD Ryzen 7 7840H Intel Core i7-13620H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840H


back to index