AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 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
7% slightly better overall score
5724 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7994 points
8889 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5575 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
4771 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5413 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
4571 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.71 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
116.22 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
57% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
14 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st of 1,089
274th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 March
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-8533

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core Ultra 5 236V comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 236V 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 but the Ryzen 9 4900H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 4900H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 236V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 4900H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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