AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i9-8950HK benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700U is faster than the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-8950HK CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.