AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i7-11800H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 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

4307 points

6296 points

46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

8432 points

43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

5628 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

5474 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

6720 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

150.35 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

8024 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

1892 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

7795 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

1896 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

768 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

236th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i7-11800H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11800H performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11800H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11800H. The Core i7-11800H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.