Intel Core 7 250H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

62 out of 100
Intel Core 7 250H
VS
58 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.5 GHz Intel Core 7 250H with 14-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 250H
Advantages of Intel Core 7 250H
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Newer - released 1 year later
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.4 GHz vs 5.1 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • More powerful Radeon 780M integrated graphics: 4.1 vs 2.4 TFLOPS

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)
1113
Cinebench Scores (#127th place)

GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2746
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
14357
File compression 1220 MB/sec 714.9 MB/sec
Clang compilation 104.1 Klines/sec 87.9 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 353.7 pages/sec 182.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 408.9 Mpixels/sec 280.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 246.5 pages/sec 271.4 pages/sec
Background blur 54.4 images/sec 44.8 images/sec
Photo processing 133.6 images/sec 70.1 images/sec
Ray tracing 22.8 Mpixels/sec 19.2 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 308 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
4109
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
27165
Integer math 99.8 GOps/sec 88.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 66.2 GOps/sec 51.6 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 104M Primes/sec 78M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 34.3M Strings/sec 35.3M Strings/sec
Data encryption 18.3 GBytes/sec 17.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 307.6 MBytes/sec 289.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 1784 Frames/sec 1153 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 17.7B Matrices/sec 20.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 11 & 768 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
200.73

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 24.7 PPW 22.6 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 319 PPW 321.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 603.7 PPW 820.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.46 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 250H 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 250H -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 780M
Intel CPU rating (#71st 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) 5.4 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.8 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 14 8
Total Threads 20 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 (81st and 120th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (96EU) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1550 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 768 768
TMUs 48 48
ROPs 24 32
Execution Units 96 12
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2.4 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 250H official page AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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