AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 5 8640HS vs Core 7 240H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8640HS beats the Core 7 240H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 240H has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. The Core 7 240H 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 Ryzen 5 8640HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.