AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8664 points

2% slightly better overall score

8415 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12283 points

10% slightly better gaming score

11132 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7517 points

7583 points

0.88% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7263 points

7406 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.29 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

188.37 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

9.5 MiB

58% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 1,105

137th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X performs better than the Core 7 240H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 240H has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 7 240H. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 240H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core 7 240H.

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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.