AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-11900H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 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

7869 points

39% slightly better overall score

5635 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

17% slightly better gaming score

8064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

4910 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

4760 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6050 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

144.70 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points

20% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

13012 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

4.9 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

154th of 1,093

288th of 1,093

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i9-11900H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800X performs better than the Core i9-11900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11900H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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