Intel Core i9-11900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

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

8281 points

1% slightly better overall score

8139 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10754 points

7% slightly better gaming score

9987 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points

7532 points

0.76% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7270 points

7360 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8414 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7427 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.26 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

207.75 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11108 points

0.57% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

11045 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2402 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2333 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.80 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

136th of 1,089

144th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2023 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11900K vs Ryzen 7 8845HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8845HS beats the Core i9-11900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8845HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11900K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8845HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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