AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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
25% slightly better overall score
6264 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
23% slightly better gaming score
7696 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
5820 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score
5710 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6544 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
175.52 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points
9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
14363 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7263 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1794 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7587 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1845 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
45 W
133% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089
239th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 7 5800X vs Ryzen 9 5900HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800X performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900HX 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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