AMD Ryzen 7 8840U vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 10 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

7756 points
8164 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10179 points
10592 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6990 points
7427 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6806 points
7270 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.90 points
188.37 points
10% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 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
9.5 MiB
18% slightly 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

155th of 1,089
141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 8840U vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 7 240H performs better than the Ryzen 7 8840U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840U 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 8840U has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840U 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 8840U. The Core 7 240H 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 8840U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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