Intel Core i7-11800H vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 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

6296 points
15772 points
150% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8432 points
15040 points
78% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5628 points
16008 points
184% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5474 points
16094 points
194% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6720 points
13700 points
103% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.35 points
466.69 points
210% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7795 points
20191 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1896 points
3294 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
4.4 GHz
91% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.5 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
166% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
960 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
128 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

236th of 1,089
19th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-11800H vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D beats the Core i7-11800H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11800H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-11800H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11800H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11800H. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11800H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-11800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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