Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX

Core Ultra 7 255HX vs Ryzen 9 7940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 255HX beats the Ryzen 9 7940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7940HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 255HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 255HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 255HX.

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. For instance, the Core Ultra 7 255HX has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.