AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 8th 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

7246 points
96% significantly better overall score
3693 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9033 points
67% significantly better gaming score
5381 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6679 points
109% significantly better multitasking score
3183 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6542 points
112% significantly better heavy workload score
3075 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

191.07 points
126% significantly higher Blender score
84.41 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9217 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4703 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2067 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1291 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8758 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4710 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2080 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1344 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

3.4 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

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

32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

175th of 1,089
463rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i7-8850H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8850H is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8850H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8850H. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800 thanks to a 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 5800 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. The Ryzen 7 5800 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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