Ryzen 7 4800H vs Ryzen 9 4900H

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Aggregated performance score

Ryzen 9 4900H
2020
8 cores / 16 threads
12.40
+3.2%
Ryzen 7 4800H
2020
8 cores / 16 threads
12.01

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 3% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

General info

Comparing Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking551575
Place by popularitynot in top-100100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)
Architecture codenameRenoir-H (Zen 2)Renoir-H (Zen 2)
Release date16 March 2020 (4 years ago)6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Current price$1339 $1141

Technical specs

Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)8 (Octa-Core)
Threads1616
Base clock speed3.3 GHz2.9 GHz
Boost clock speed4.4 GHz4.2 GHz
L1 cache128K (per core)128K (per core)
L2 cache512K (per core)512K (per core)
L3 cache12 MB (shared)12 MB (shared)
Chip lithography7 nm7 nm
Die size156 mm2156 mm2
Maximum core temperature105 °C105 °C
Number of transistors9800 Million9800 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility++
Unlocked multiplierNoNo

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketFP6FP6
Power consumption (TDP)54 Watt54 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsDDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA, SHADDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI++
FMA++
AVX++

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4, DDR4DDR4, DDR4
Maximum memory size64 GB64 GB
Max memory channels4no data
Maximum memory bandwidth68.27 GB/s68.27 GB/s
ECC memory support--

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)AMD Radeon RX Vega 7

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 9 4900H and Ryzen 7 4800H.

PCIe version3.03.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 9 4900H 12.40
+3.2%
Ryzen 7 4800H 12.01

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 3% based on our aggregated benchmark results.


Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 68%

Ryzen 9 4900H 19171
+3.2%
Ryzen 7 4800H 18576

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 3% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 9 4900H 1548
+5.9%
Ryzen 7 4800H 1462

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 6% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 42%

Ryzen 9 4900H 6793
+14.3%
Ryzen 7 4800H 5943

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 14% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Ryzen 9 4900H 5946
+4.6%
Ryzen 7 4800H 5684

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 5% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 9 4900H 40253
+8%
Ryzen 7 4800H 37276

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 8% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Ryzen 9 4900H 3.19
+6%
Ryzen 7 4800H 3.38

Ryzen 7 4800H outperforms Ryzen 9 4900H by 6% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Ryzen 9 4900H 23
+9.1%
Ryzen 7 4800H 21

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 9% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 9 4900H 1927
+3.9%
Ryzen 7 4800H 1854

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 4% in Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core.

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 15%

Ryzen 9 4900H 193
+2.7%
Ryzen 7 4800H 188

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 3% in Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 9 4900H 2.24
+2.8%
Ryzen 7 4800H 2.18

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 3% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core.

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 4900H 7.4
Ryzen 7 4800H 10.3
+39.2%

Ryzen 7 4800H outperforms Ryzen 9 4900H by 39% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 4900H 4297
Ryzen 7 4800H 4601
+7.1%

Ryzen 7 4800H outperforms Ryzen 9 4900H by 7% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 4900H 215
Ryzen 7 4800H 216
+0.3%

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 13%

Ryzen 9 4900H 111
+8.1%
Ryzen 7 4800H 103

Ryzen 9 4900H outperforms Ryzen 7 4800H by 8% in x264 encoding pass 2.

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance score 12.40 12.01
Integrated graphics card 9.06 7.43
Recency 16 March 2020 6 January 2020

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