AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10700 points
16626 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10758 points
15693 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10731 points
16989 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10842 points
17189 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

458.15 points
465.69 points
1% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
5.6 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
40 MiB
900% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
36 MiB
350% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,114
12th of 1,114

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

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