AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-9850H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 6 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

4897 points
21% slightly better overall score
4014 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points
14% slightly better gaming score
5637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
3514 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
3402 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
87.11 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5022 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points
Identical
1359 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5044 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points
0.29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1387 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
2.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.6 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
200% significantly lower TDP
45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,089
434th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-9850H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i7-9850H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9850H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-9850H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9850H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-9850H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i7-9850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9850H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9850H. Despite this, the Core i7-9850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U.

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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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