AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 5 8645HS vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8645HS is faster than the Core 7 240H. 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 8645HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 8645HS. 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 8645HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.