Intel Core i9-9900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

6105 points
6306 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7952 points
8479 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5494 points
5619 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5338 points
5454 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.10 points
163.82 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7287 points
9274 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
2302 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
4.30 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
Identical
5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
6 MiB
200% 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

246th of 1,089
235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

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 i9-9900 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900 is faster than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Core i9-9900 thanks to a slightly 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 7640HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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