AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core Ultra 9 285H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7940HS beats the Core Ultra 9 285H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 285H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core Ultra 9 285H 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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.