AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 16 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
6976 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
9640 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
6199 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
6011 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
193.42 points
20% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
22
37% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
114% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
18 MiB
350% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 165H is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 165H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. The Core Ultra 7 165H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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