AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core 7 240H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 6900HX beats the Core 7 240H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 240H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HX has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 7 240H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. The Core 7 240H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.