AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS vs Intel Xeon Gold 6230

Ryzen 7 7840HS vs Xeon Gold 6230 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6230 beats the Ryzen 7 7840HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6230. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6230 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7840HS. The Xeon Gold 6230 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 7840HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.