Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus vs AMD Ryzen 3 8440U
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Jan 2026
Dec 2023
Manufacturer
Intel
Amd
Type
Laptop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Arrow Lake
Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Processor Number
290HX
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Integrated Graphics
Arc Graphics (4-Cores)
Radeon 740M
Generation
Ultra 9 (Arrow Lake-HX)
Ryzen 3 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))
Package
Transistor Count
17.8 billions
20.9 billions
Manufacturing Process
3 nm
4 nm
Socket
FCBGA-2114
FP8
Power Consumption
45-55 W
15-30 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption
160 W
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Peak Operating Temperature
105 °C
100 °C
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Die Size
243 mm²
137 mm²
Package
FC-BGA
FP7, FP7r2
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
8
1
Performance Core Threads
8
2
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.7 GHz
3.0 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
5.5 GHz
4.7 GHz
Efficiency Cores
16
3
Efficiency Core Threads
16
6
Efficiency Core Base Frequency
1.8 GHz
2.8 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency
4.7 GHz
3.3 GHz
Total Core Count
24
4
Total Thread Count
24
8
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
27
30
L1 Cache
192 K per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
3 MB per core
1 MB per core
L3 Cache
36 MB shared
8 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
Yes
No
SMP
1
1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR5-6400
DDR5-5600,LPDDR5x-7500
Max Memory Size
256 GB
256 GB
Max Memory Channels
2
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
102.4 GB/s
89.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
No
No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
true
true
GPU Base Frequency
300 MHz
800 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
2000 MHz
2500 MHz
Shader Units
512
256
Texture Units
32
16
Raster Operation Units
16
8
Execution Units
64
4
Power Consumption
14
15
📊 Benchmark
Cinebench R23
2,237
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Cinebench R23
38,581
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Geekbench 6
3,196
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Geekbench 6
21,569
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Cinebench 2024
126
-
Cinebench 2024
2,218
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Passmark CPU
5,006
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Passmark CPU
66,051
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