AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core 7 240H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840U is faster 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 slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840U has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has a slightly 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 slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7840U. 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 7840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.