AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i7-4790

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i7-4790 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-4790 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4790 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. The Ryzen 9 5900HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

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