AMD Ryzen 7 7840H vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

8985 points
16% slightly better overall score
7707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10717 points
5% slightly better gaming score
10126 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8377 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
6950 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8167 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
6726 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7434 points
10239 points
37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.18 points
234.24 points
36% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
28 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

111th of 1,089
157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-8400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 7 7840H vs Core Ultra 9 285H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7840H performs better than the Core Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7840H that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840H. The Core Ultra 9 285H 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 7840H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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