AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 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

11348 points
16626 points
46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10755 points
15693 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11614 points
16989 points
46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11830 points
17189 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

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

68th of 1,120
12th of 1,120

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 9 285 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 9 285 performs better than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 9 285 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285 has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core Ultra 9 285 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 8940HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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