Intel Core i9-9880H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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
5821 points
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6160 points
7228 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4177 points
5452 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4061 points
5384 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.53 points
166.92 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6125 points
9022 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points
2060 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.30 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.1 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
28 W
60% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

374th of 1,089
266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i9-9880H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8840HS beats the Core i9-9880H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9880H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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

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