Intel Core i9-8950HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i9 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile 6 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

4132 points

67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3684 points

5983 points

62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2115 points

3549 points

67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2044 points

3422 points

67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.61 points

89.80 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4580 points

4683 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1270 points

1316 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5219 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4568 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1422 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1316 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

4 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

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

634th of 1,089

425th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-8950HK vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 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 4650U has significantly 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 4650U.

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