Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 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

5190 points

6306 points

21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

8479 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

5619 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

5454 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

163.82 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points

9274 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1571 points

2302 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

4.30 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% 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

326th of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 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 i7-9700 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7640HS beats the Core i7-9700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has more threads than the Core i7-9700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Core i7-9700 thanks to a 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 i7-9700. The Ryzen 5 7640HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.