AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 14 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
18% slightly better overall score
5222 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
23% slightly better gaming score
6170 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
4938 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
4896 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
261.54 points
62% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
28
75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.1 GHz
3% 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
371% significantly lower TDP
165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

8 KiB
896 KiB
11100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
324th 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 August

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 i9-7940X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X CPU because of its 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 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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