Intel Core i7-8850H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

3693 points

6306 points

70% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5381 points

8479 points

57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3183 points

5619 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3075 points

5454 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

84.41 points

163.82 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

5742 points

13029 points

126% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4710 points

9274 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1344 points

2302 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

4.30 GHz

65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

5 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

20% slightly lower TDP

54 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

463rd of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8850H vs Ryzen 5 7640HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640HS is faster than the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8850H. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8850H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7640HS CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8850H. The Ryzen 5 7640HS also has slightly 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 i7-8850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.