AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core i5-11400F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 4900H beats the Core i5-11400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 4900H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 9 4900H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400F CPU because of its 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 9 4900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.