Intel Core i9-9880H vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD 9 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

4654 points
5669 points
21% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6160 points
7130 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4177 points
5211 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4061 points
5104 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.53 points
136.28 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6125 points
12689 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points
1438 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
9
12% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
18
12% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.19 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
433% significantly lower TDP
240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
576 KiB
12% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4.5 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

374th of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-9880H vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9880H is faster than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9880H. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. A Core i9-9880H CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its 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 EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9880H. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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