AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-9850H

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i7-9850H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9850H beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1500X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850H. Despite this, the Core i7-9850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1500X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9850H. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has slightly more 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.