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Intel Core Ultra 7 165H vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

59 out of 100
Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
VS
57 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 1.4 GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 165H with 16-cores against the 3.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 7840U with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

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 7840U and 165H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Newer - released 7 months later
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
  • More powerful Arc Graphics (8-Cores) integrated graphics: 4.7 vs 4.1 TFLOPS
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 5 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core Ultra 7 165H
vs
Ryzen 7 7840U

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench Scores (#169th place)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core Ultra 7 165H +21%
12979
Ryzen 7 7840U
10726
File compression 1250 MB/sec 1110 MB/sec
Clang compilation 105.2 Klines/sec 82.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 301.6 pages/sec 210.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 375 Mpixels/sec 298.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 256.1 pages/sec 250.6 pages/sec
Background blur 51.3 images/sec 47.5 images/sec
Photo processing 108.4 images/sec 90.5 images/sec
Ray tracing 20.6 Mpixels/sec 17.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 131 & 1087 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 89 GOps/sec 89.3 GOps/sec
Floating point math 65.5 GOps/sec 50.9 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 120M Primes/sec 79M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 33.4M Strings/sec 33.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 17.1 GBytes/sec 17.4 GBytes/sec
Data compression 291 MBytes/sec 282.7 MBytes/sec
Physics 1816 Frames/sec 1245 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 17.2B Matrices/sec 20B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1738 & 551 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core Ultra 7 165H +6%
211.9
Ryzen 7 7840U
199.52

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 33.8 PPW 24.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 463.5 PPW 357.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 923.4 PPW 812.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 7.57 PPW 6.65 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-21 (laduran)Geekbench 6 CPU2470 / 13442
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AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-03 (Aaron)Cinebench 202493 / 764
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-15 (JP)Cinebench 202496 / 728
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 7 165H and AMD Ryzen 7 7840U

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released December 14, 2023 May 3, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Meteor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number 165H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS - Intel Core i7 1370P
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 7 265H - AMD Ryzen 7 250
Intel CPU rating (#89th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#82nd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 12 16
Base Frequency (P) 1.4 GHz 3.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5 GHz 5.1 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 -
E-Threads 10 -
Base Frequency (E) 0.9 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.8 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 16 8
Total Threads 22 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 14x 33x
L1 Cache 112K (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 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 28 W 15-30 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP8
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (113th and 130th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics (8-Cores) Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2300 MHz 2700 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 128 12
TGP 28 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core Ultra 7 165H +15%
4.7 TFLOPS
Ryzen 7 7840U
4.1 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 780M compared to Arc iGPU (8-Cores)

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-7467
- LPDDR5x-7467
- DDR5-5600		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 89.6 GB/s -
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 7 165H official page AMD Ryzen 7 7840U official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20

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Comments

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