AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 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

6264 points
68% significantly better overall score
3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points
37% slightly better gaming score
5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points
81% significantly better multitasking score
3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points
84% significantly better heavy workload score
3089 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points
130% significantly higher Blender score
75.98 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363 points
49% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
9628 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
94% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
800 KiB
56% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 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

239th of 1,089
459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HX is faster than the Core i7-1255U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

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

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