Intel Core i9-11950H vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

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

6449 points
4% slightly better overall score
6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8487 points
7% slightly better gaming score
7894 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5818 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
5606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5677 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
5474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

153.40 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
148.55 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13113 points
11% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
11741 points

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

2.6 GHz
2.70 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

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
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

223rd of 1,089
242nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-11950H vs Ryzen 7 6800U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 6800U is faster than the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 6800U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Core i9-11950H thanks to a 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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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