AMD Ryzen 7 5700 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 7 5700 vs Core 7 240H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 240H beats the Ryzen 7 5700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 240H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 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 7 5700. 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 7 5700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.