Intel Core i7-11850H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

5771 points
15% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7728 points
18% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5178 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5048 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.63 points
69% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

272nd of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-11850H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11850H is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11850H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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