Core i5-11500H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8840HS is faster than the Core i5-11500H. Despite this, the Core i5-11500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
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 i5-11500H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11500H. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8840HS outputs less heat than Core i5-11500H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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