Intel Core 7 240H vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D

Compare Intel Core (Series 2) 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8392 points
15323 points
82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11118 points
14466 points
30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7561 points
15645 points
106% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7384 points
15813 points
114% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

188.37 points
543.98 points
188% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
16
60% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
Identical
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

9.5 MiB
16 MiB
68% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
128 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

140th of 1,127
21st of 1,127

Family

The product line

Core (Series 2)
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core 7 240H vs Ryzen 9 9955HX3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D is faster than the Core 7 240H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core 7 240H has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 7 240H. Both the Core 7 240H and Ryzen 9 9955HX3D have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D has more L2 cache than the Core 7 240H. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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