AMD Ryzen 7 4800H vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Ryzen 7 4800H vs Core i5-1240P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800H beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 4800H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 4800H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1240P has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 4800H. The Core i5-1240P 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 7 4800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.