Intel Core i7-8565U vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2529.00
$ 314.49
$ 2214.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1896 points
13554 points
614% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3181 points
13457 points
323% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1530 points
13583 points
787% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points
13587 points
827% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.09 points
412.82 points
956% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2327 points
17426 points
648% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points
2844 points
253% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
4.7 GHz
161% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.6 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
1033% significantly lower TDP
170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
24
49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
12 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
64 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

739th of 1,089
36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-8565U vs Ryzen 9 7900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Core i7-8565U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8565U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8565U. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8565U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8565U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8565U. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8565U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8565U. The Ryzen 9 7900X also has significantly more 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 i7-8565U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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