AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-9800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-9800X

Price

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$ 912.90

$ 768.88

$ 144.02 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4897 points

6761 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points

8246 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points

6264 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points

6133 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points

163.68 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points

7128 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1345 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points

7552 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points

1400 points

0.65% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

3.8 GHz

111% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.4 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

Identical

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

367th of 1,103

216th of 1,103

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-9800X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9800X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.