AMD Ryzen 7 4800U vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 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

5130 points
7006 points
36% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6861 points
7653 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4572 points
6778 points
48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4437 points
6719 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.31 points
209.19 points
71% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5529 points
9102 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1405 points
1406 points
0.07% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5586 points
8832 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1401 points
1432 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
3.3 GHz
83% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
833% significantly lower TDP
140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
14 MiB
75% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

334th of 1,089
193rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 4800U vs Core i9-7900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 4800U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 4800U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 4800U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 4800U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800U. Also, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its 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 4800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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