AMD Ryzen 7 4800U vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 14 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
5222 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6861 points
11% slightly better gaming score
6170 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4572 points
4938 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4437 points
4896 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.31 points
261.54 points
113% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5529 points
9233 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1405 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1299 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5586 points
10511 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1401 points
1444 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
28
75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
3.1 GHz
72% 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
1000% significantly lower TDP
165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
896 KiB
75% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
25 MiB
212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

334th of 1,089
324th 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 August

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 i9-7940X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7940X beats the Ryzen 7 4800U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4800U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 4800U. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 4800U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 4800U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 4800U. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X 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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