AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs Intel Core 7 240H

Compare AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 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

7135 points
8164 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9019 points
10592 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6520 points
7427 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6356 points
7270 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.91 points
188.37 points
8% slightly higher Blender score

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

3.30 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.2 GHz
6% 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
9.5 MiB
137% significantly 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

183rd of 1,089
141st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series
Core (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs Core 7 240H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H beats the Core 7 240H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 240H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 240H has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 240H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Core 7 240H 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 PRO 6950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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