AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Ryzen 7 8840HS vs Core Ultra 5 135U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 135U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 135U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.