AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i5-8279U

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core i5-8279U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8279U is faster than the Ryzen 9 4900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 4900H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 4900H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8279U. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8279U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8279U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8279U. Also, the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8279U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 4900H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 9 4900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.