AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i7-9700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 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

6179 points

9% slightly better overall score

5644 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points

8019 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

4848 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

4655 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6228 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5869 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

133.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.9 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

8 KiB

512 KiB

6300% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089

282nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i7-9700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HS beats the Core i7-9700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen 9 5900HS also has slightly 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.