AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core 7 240H

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core 7 240H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HS beats the Core 7 240H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 7940HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 7 240H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 240H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core 7 240H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 9 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.