AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i5-11400H

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Core i5-11400H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1800X performs better than the Core i5-11400H. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400H. The Core i5-11400H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1800X 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 Core i5-11400H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1800X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-11400H.

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 7 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.