Core i9-7900X vs Ryzen 7 6800U comparison
In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Ryzen 7 6800U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 6800U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 6800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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