AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i7-9800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 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

6310 points

6761 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7757 points

8246 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5859 points

6264 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5747 points

6133 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

163.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7128 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1345 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

0.46% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7552 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1400 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

266% significantly lower TDP

165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

220% significantly more L3 cache

5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

236th of 1,089

207th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

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 5900HX vs Core i7-9800X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9800X is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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