Intel Core i7-8850H vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 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

3693 points
10155 points
174% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5381 points
10880 points
102% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3183 points
9947 points
212% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3075 points
9902 points
222% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

84.41 points
290.59 points
244% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4710 points
13326 points
182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1344 points
2592 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
5.1 GHz
18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
28 W
60% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
12 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
24 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

463rd of 1,089
85th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen AI 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-8850H vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is faster than the Core i7-8850H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8850H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8850H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 outputs less heat than Core i7-8850H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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