AMD Ryzen 7 7840U vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 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

8215 points
10831 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points
12542 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7390 points
10318 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7189 points
10235 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5466 points
9829 points
79% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.47 points
278.01 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10324 points
12989 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2258 points
2416 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
50% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
5.2 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
30 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

139th of 1,089
72nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core i7-14650HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14650HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 7840U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7840U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7840U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7840U. The Core i7-14650HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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