Intel Core i7-11700KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7085 points

13% slightly better overall score

6264 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9129 points

18% slightly better gaming score

7696 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6412 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

5820 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6235 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

5710 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8133 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6544 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

197.54 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

175.52 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9526 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7263 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1794 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10286 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7587 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2275 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1845 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

185th of 1,089

239th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11700KF vs Ryzen 9 5900HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700KF performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Also, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900HX outputs less heat than Core i7-11700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-11700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.