Intel Core 7 240H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

56 out of 100
Intel Core 7 240H
VS
58 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.5 GHz Intel Core 7 240H with 10-cores against the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 8840HS and 240H
Advantages of Intel Core 7 240H
  • Newer - released 1 year later
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Has 2 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.2 GHz vs 5.1 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 1.6 TFLOPS
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#199th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2551
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
13094
File compression 1220 MB/sec 714.9 MB/sec
Clang compilation 94.3 Klines/sec 87.9 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 342 pages/sec 182.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 390.1 Mpixels/sec 280.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 262 pages/sec 271.4 pages/sec
Background blur 54.8 images/sec 44.8 images/sec
Photo processing 129.1 images/sec 70.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 19.6 Mpixels/sec 19.2 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1] – 308 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3784
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
23981
24625
Integer math 80.4 GOps/sec 88.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 58.9 GOps/sec 51.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 102M Primes/sec 78M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 28.9M Strings/sec 35.3M Strings/sec
Data encryption 15.2 GBytes/sec 17.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 272 MBytes/sec 289.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 1723 Frames/sec 1153 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 16.9B Matrices/sec 20.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 979 & 768 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
197.09

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 18.4 PPW 22.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 291 PPW 321.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 532.9 PPW 820.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.38 PPW 5.59 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core 7 240H and AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 18, 2024 December 6, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Raptor Lake Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Model number 240H -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (64EU) Radeon 780M
Intel CPU rating (#103rd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#75th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.5 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.2 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4 -
E-Threads 4 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 10 8
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 25x 33x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-45 W (configurable) 20-30 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP8
Peak Temperature 100°C 100°C
Laptop processors ranking (137th and 120th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (64EU) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1550 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 512 768
TMUs 32 48
ROPs 16 32
Execution Units 64 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.6 TFLOPS
4.1 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-6400
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-6400
- LPDDR5x-6400
- LPDDR4x-4267
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core 7 240H official page AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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