Intel Core i9-11980HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

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?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6435 points

8878 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

10890 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5726 points

8202 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5566 points

8008 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i9-11980HK and the Ryzen 7 7840HS? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10988 points

49% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

7356 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.36 points

244.42 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13387 points

17214 points

28% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.80 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

20% slightly lower TDP

54 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

224th of 1,089

116th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11980HK vs Ryzen 7 7840HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS is faster than the Core i9-11980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11980HK. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7840HS CPU because of its slightly 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.