Intel Core i9-8950HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i9 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 4 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

2473 points
2711 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3684 points
4257 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2115 points
2242 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2044 points
2151 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.61 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
41.85 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4580 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2399 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1270 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
944 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5219 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2520 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1422 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
868 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

634th of 1,089
587th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i9
Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-8950HK vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-8950HK is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U outputs less heat than Core i9-8950HK thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U.

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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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