Intel Core i9-11980HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

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

6435 points
6581 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points
78% significantly better gaming score
4887 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5726 points
7174 points
25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5566 points
7309 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.36 points
247.63 points
20% slightly higher Blender 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

2.6 GHz
3.80 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

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

238th of 1,125
227th of 1,125

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

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-11980HK vs Ryzen 7 8745HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8745HS is faster than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11980HK.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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