AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i7-9700K

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

5087 points

5644 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points

8019 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points

4848 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points

0.45% slightly better heavy workload score

4655 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

133.80 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6263 points

7073 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1671 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1627 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6881 points

7273 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1741 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1702 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

3.6 GHz

89% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

340th of 1,089

282nd 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

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 5800U vs Core i7-9700K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700K is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 5800U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700K 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 5800U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen 7 5800U also has slightly 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.