Intel Core Ultra 9 285H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.9 GHz Intel Core Ultra 9 285H with 16-cores against the 4.0 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS 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 7940HS and 285H
Advantages of Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
  • Newer - released 2 years later
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • Has 8 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • More modern manufacturing process – 3 versus 4 nanometers
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • 17% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2897 vs 2469 points
  • More than 10Β° C higher critical temperature
  • 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.4 GHz vs 5.2 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM

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 2026 (Single) 506 -
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 4879 -
Cinebench Scores (123rd and 174th place)

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)
File compression 1510 MB/sec 962.5 MB/sec
Clang compilation 129.7 Klines/sec 101.4 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 425.7 pages/sec 211.8 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 522.7 Mpixels/sec 326.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 309.2 pages/sec 260.3 pages/sec
Background blur 73.9 images/sec 53.8 images/sec
Photo processing 159.5 images/sec 87.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 26.8 Mpixels/sec 22.5 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 569 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Integer math 86 GOps/sec 102.1 GOps/sec
Floating point math 109.3 GOps/sec 62.3 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 330M Primes/sec 90M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 41M Strings/sec 42.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 26.2 GBytes/sec 21.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 336.1 MBytes/sec 360.4 MBytes/sec
Physics 2512 Frames/sec 1427 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 26.8B Matrices/sec 27.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 2125 & 2780 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
225.69

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 24.9 PPW 17.3 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 381.6 PPW 215.4 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 759.8 PPW 551.5 PPW
Blender / Watt 4.56 PPW 4.18 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 9 285H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-16 (AsNapur)Geekbench 6 CPU2756 / 16837
πŸ“˜ 2026-01-16 (AsNapur)Cinebench 2024122 / 1126
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-31 (Adi)Cinebench 2024114 / 804
πŸ“˜ 2025-09-19 (JacoIsHere)Geekbench 6 CPU2868 / 14847
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-07 (Himmanshu Chowdhury)Cinebench 2024117 / 1122
AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-09 (chrisg)Cinebench 2024105 / 873
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-19 (Phillywilly2000)Cinebench 2024102 / 906
πŸ“˜ 2025-07-14 (GlancingOcean)Cinebench 202470 / 677
πŸ“˜ 2025-05-13 (antoooooo)Cinebench 2024109 / 1009
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-08 (ζ²§ζ΅·)Geekbench 6 CPU2614 / 12911

Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core Ultra 9 285H and AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 6, 2025 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Arrow Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number 285H -
Integrated GPU Arc Graphics 140T Radeon 780M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 - Intel Core i9 13900H
Successor - - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
Intel CPU rating (#46th place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#66th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 6 8
P-Threads 6 16
Base Frequency (P) 2.9 GHz 4.0 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.4 GHz 5.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 10 -
E-Threads 10 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.7 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 4.5 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 16 8
Total Threads 16 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 29x 40x
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 3 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-45 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 115 W -
Socket FCBGA-2049 FP8
Peak Temperature 110Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (58th and 106th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Arc Graphics 140T Radeon 780M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 2350 MHz 2800 MHz
Shading Units 1024 768
TMUs 64 48
ROPs 32 32
Execution Units 8 12
TGP 35 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
4.8 TFLOPS
4.3 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR5-8400
- LPDDR5x-8400
- DDR5-6400
- DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core Ultra 9 285H official page AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 9 7940HS:
    - DDR5 memory is supported only on the FP7r2 socket, while FP7 and FP8 sockets support LPDDR5/x.
    - ECC support is available exclusively on the FP7r2 socket.

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