AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 240H is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 240H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HX. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HX 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 5900HX. 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.