Intel Core i9-11900H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i9-11900H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition performs better than the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11900H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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. Indeed, the Core i9-11900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.