Intel Core i7-11850H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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

5771 points

10700 points

85% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7728 points

10758 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5178 points

10731 points

107% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5048 points

10842 points

114% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.63 points

458.15 points

210% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

2.9 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

22% slightly lower TDP

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

1024 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

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

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11850H vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Core i7-11850H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11850H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8940HX CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.