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

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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

8215 points
6% slightly better overall score
7707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points
6% slightly better gaming score
10126 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7390 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
6950 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7189 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
6726 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5466 points
10239 points
87% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

195.47 points
234.24 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10324 points
14785 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2258 points
2607 points
15% 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
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
5.4 GHz
5% 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
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

139th of 1,089
158th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 May
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 7840U vs Core Ultra 9 285H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840U is faster than the Core Ultra 9 285H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 285H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 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 Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7840U. The Core Ultra 9 285H 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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