AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 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
7006 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
7653 points
0.18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
6778 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
6719 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6228 points
6987 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
209.19 points
30% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.3 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
300% significantly lower TDP
140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

8 KiB
640 KiB
7900% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
14% slightly more L3 cache
14 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
193rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 May

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

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i9-7900X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7900X performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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