AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i9-9900K

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

6719 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7994 points

8223 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5575 points

6214 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5413 points

6073 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.71 points

175.64 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11792 points

12397 points

5% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6718 points

7957 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1535 points

1634 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6680 points

8053 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1557 points

1703 points

9% slightly 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

111% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 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

209th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 March

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core i9-9900K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Ryzen 9 4900H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 4900H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 4900H. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 4900H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 4900H.

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.