AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 2) 10 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

8895 points
5% slightly better overall score
8392 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points
11118 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
7561 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
7384 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
188.37 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
9.5 MiB
18% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

121st of 1,124
140th of 1,124

Family

The product line

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Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Core 7 240H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 8945H is faster than the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 240H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 240H. In terms of cache, the Core 7 240H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core 7 240H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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