Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 10 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

6105 points
8164 points
33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7952 points
10592 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5494 points
7427 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5338 points
7270 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.10 points
188.37 points
27% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.2 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
28
75% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
9.5 MiB
374% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 1,089
141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i9-9900 vs Core 7 240H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900 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 Core 7 240H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-9900 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 240H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. The Core 7 240H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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