AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 9 4900HS
We compared two CPUs: the 3.7 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (desktop) with 12-cores against the 3.0 GHz Ryzen 9 4900HS (laptop) with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of electricity consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- Has 56 MB larger L3 cache size
- Supports up to 128 GB DDR4-3200 RAM
- Unlocked multiplier
- Has 4 more physical cores
- 40% faster in a single-core Geekbench v5 test - 1644 vs 1172 points
- Newer - released 7-months later
- Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
- 12% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.8 GHz vs 4.3 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS
- Consumes up to 67% less energy than the Ryzen 9 5900X – 35 vs 105 Watt
- Around 20.59 GB/s (43%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
- More than 15° C higher critical temperature
- Includes an integrated GPU Radeon Vega 8
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
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Specifications
General
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | October 8, 2020 | March 16, 2020 |
| Type | Desktop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Vermeer | Zen 2 |
| Socket | AM4 | FP6 |
| Integrated GPU | No | Radeon Vega 8 |
Performance
| Cores | 12 | 8 |
| Threads | 24 | 16 |
| Base Frequency | 3.7 GHz | 3.0 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.8 GHz | 4.3 GHz |
| Bus frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 37x | 30x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | - |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 64MB (shared) | 8MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | Yes | No |
Power
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 7 nm |
| TDP | 105 W | 35 W |
| Max. temperature | 90°C | 105°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | - | Radeon Vega 8 |
| GPU Boost Clock | - | 1750 MHz |
| Shading Units | - | 512 |
| TMUs | - | 32 |
| ROPs | - | 8 |
| TGP | - | 15 W |
Memory support
| Memory types | DDR4-3200 | DDR4-3200, LPDDR4X-4266 |
| Memory Size | 128 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 47.68 GB/s | 68.27 GB/s |
| ECC Support | Yes | Yes |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 9 5900X official page | AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 | 16 |
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