AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Intel Core i5-11600

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 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

5903 points
5920 points
0.29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7480 points
8284 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5373 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
5201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5224 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
5041 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

138.57 points
158.65 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6233 points
8131 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1440 points
2100 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6388 points
7951 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1452 points
2104 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.8 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
85% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache
480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

260th of 1,089
258th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
11th Generation Core i5

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
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Core i5-11600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 4900HS performs better than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 4900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 4900HS.

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 4900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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