Intel Core Ultra 7 268V vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 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

5659 points

10700 points

89% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8803 points

10758 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4696 points

10731 points

128% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4485 points

10842 points

141% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.39 points

458.15 points

293% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

2.9 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

14 MiB

250% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

279th of 1,089

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-8533

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core Ultra 7 268V vs Ryzen 9 8940HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core Ultra 7 268V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 268V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 268V. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 268V has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core Ultra 7 268V 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. For instance, the Core Ultra 7 268V has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.