Intel Core i9-9900KF 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

6827 points

3% slightly better overall score

6581 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8465 points

73% significantly better gaming score

4887 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6279 points

7174 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6130 points

7309 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

176.47 points

247.63 points

40% slightly higher Blender 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

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

217th of 1,125

227th of 1,125

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900KF vs Ryzen 7 8745HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KF beats the Ryzen 7 8745HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8745HS 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 Ryzen 7 8745HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900KF. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8745HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900KF. 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.