AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th 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

6178 points

7984 points

29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7994 points

9165 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5575 points

7574 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5413 points

7434 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.71 points

208.15 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11792 points

14281 points

21% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6718 points

9777 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1535 points

2159 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6680 points

9888 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1557 points

2246 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st of 1,089

149th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 March

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core i7-11700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 4900H. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-11700K also has significantly 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 9 4900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.