AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i7-9700

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i7-9700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800U beats the Core i7-9700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 5800U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700 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 5800U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 7 5800U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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