Intel Core Ultra 9 185H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

Compare Intel 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

8045 points
8215 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9968 points
10758 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
7390 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7363 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
7189 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7814 points
42% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5466 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.48 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
195.47 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11901 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10324 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2228 points
2258 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

22
37% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
Identical
5.1 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

18 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

148th of 1,089
139th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core Ultra 9 185H vs Ryzen 7 7840U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 9 185H beats the Ryzen 7 7840U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 185H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7840U. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 185H has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7840U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 185H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 185H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840U. The Core Ultra 9 185H 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. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 185H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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