Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

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

6740 points
2% slightly better overall score
6581 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8249 points
68% significantly better gaming score
4887 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6233 points
7174 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6091 points
7309 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points
247.63 points
40% slightly higher Blender 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

3.6 GHz
3.80 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

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

221st of 1,125
227th of 1,125

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 7 8745HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900K performs better than the Ryzen 7 8745HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8745HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900K. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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