AMD Ryzen 7 4800H vs Intel Core i5-4200U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 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

5833 points
545% significantly better overall score
903 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7173 points
306% significantly better gaming score
1763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5387 points
694% significantly better multitasking score
678 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5262 points
704% significantly better heavy workload score
654 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.13 points
909% significantly higher Blender score
14.77 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5783 points
325% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1358 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1419 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
691 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6073 points
333% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1401 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1481 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
732 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
300% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
81% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
61% significantly higher turbo speed
2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

264th of 1,089
984th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 4800H vs Core i5-4200U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4800H beats the Core i5-4200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4800H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-4200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4200U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4800H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4200U. Also, the Ryzen 7 4800H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4200U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 4800H 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 7 4800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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