AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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

6178 points

6435 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7994 points

8714 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5575 points

5726 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5413 points

5566 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.71 points

206.36 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11792 points

13387 points

13% slightly higher Cinebench R23 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

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

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

Identical

45 W

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

8 MiB

24 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st of 1,089

224th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 March

2021 May

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 i9-11980HK specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11980HK 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.