AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 5 7640HS vs Core 7 240H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 240H beats the Ryzen 5 7640HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 240H has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 240H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7640HS. The Core 7 240H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.