Intel Core i5-11400H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Core i5-11400H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840HS beats the Core i5-11400H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11400H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS outputs less heat than Core i5-11400H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11400H. The Ryzen 7 8840HS also has slightly 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 i5-11400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.