AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

6179 points
8164 points
32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
10592 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
7427 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
7270 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
188.37 points
17% 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 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
9.5 MiB
137% 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

240th of 1,089
141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core 7 240H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 240H is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 240H has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS 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 significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. 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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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