Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

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

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Intel Core i7-9700

AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points

5427 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

3% slightly better gaming score

7307 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

4865 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

4745 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

159.68 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.20 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% 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

300th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9700 vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition beats the Core i7-9700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition 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.