Intel Core i9-8950HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i9 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 3000 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

2795 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3684 points

4675 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2115 points

2258 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2044 points

2176 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.61 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

53.58 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4580 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2545 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1270 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

911 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5219 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2954 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1422 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

929 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 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

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

570th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i9

Ryzen PRO 3000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-8950HK vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U.

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.