AMD EPYC 7543P vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare AMD EPYC 7003 Series 32 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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

3463 points
3693 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4960 points
5381 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2982 points
3183 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2866 points
3075 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.01 points
84.41 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15287 points
224% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4710 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1609 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1344 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
433% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
433% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

225 W
45 W
400% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

8
300% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

2048 KiB
433% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
966% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

256 MiB
2033% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

488th of 1,089
463rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

EPYC 7003 Series
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

EPYC 7543P vs Core i7-8850H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8850H is faster than the EPYC 7543P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 7543P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8850H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H outputs less heat than EPYC 7543P thanks to a significantly 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 EPYC 7543P has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more 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 EPYC 7543P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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