AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS vs AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Ryzen 5 7640HS vs Ryzen AI 5 340 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7640HS beats the Ryzen AI 5 340 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen AI 5 340 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 5 340. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 5 340 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 7640HS thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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.