Intel Core Ultra 9 288V vs AMD Ryzen 5 240

Core Ultra 9 288V vs Ryzen 5 240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 240 beats the Core Ultra 9 288V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 288V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 288V has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 240. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 288V has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 240. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 240 has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 288V. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 288V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 288V has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 288V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 240. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 240 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 288V.

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 9 288V has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.