Intel Core i5-11400H vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Core i5-11400H vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Core i5-11400H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400H. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400H. The Ryzen 9 7900 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.