AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 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

12% slightly better overall score

5502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7994 points

51% significantly better gaming score

5267 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5575 points

0.18% slightly better multitasking score

5565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5413 points

5563 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

147.71 points

165.47 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6718 points

6942 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1535 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1009 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6680 points

7090 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1557 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1072 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

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

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

200% significantly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

241st of 1,089

294th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 March

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Ryzen 9 4900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 4900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 4900H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 4900H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.