AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i7-11850H

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i7-11850H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11850H beats the Ryzen 9 5900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-11850H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11850H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11850H. Despite this, the Core i7-11850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11850H outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.