AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS

Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Ryzen 9 5900HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Ryzen 9 4900HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 4900HS 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. Both the Ryzen 9 4900HS and Ryzen 9 5900HS have the same clock 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900HS also has significantly more 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 4900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.