AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core Ultra 5 235

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 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

10700 points

10867 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points

13656 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

9935 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

9663 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

304.58 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

128% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

26 MiB

550% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

75th of 1,089

71st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2025 April

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Core Ultra 5 235 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 235 is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core Ultra 5 235 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 235. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 235 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 235 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core Ultra 5 235 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 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.