Intel Core i9-11900H vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

5635 points
7335 points
30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8064 points
8938 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4910 points
6797 points
38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4760 points
6646 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6050 points
7297 points
20% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.70 points
209.61 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13012 points
14317 points
10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.40 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
133% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
96 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i9-11900H vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster than the Core i9-11900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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