Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 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

6719 points

7028 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points

8379 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points

6623 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points

6517 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

164.73 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

12397 points

12929 points

4% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points

9396 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

2142 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

209th of 1,089

191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U performs better than the Core i9-9900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.