We used Cinebench R23 multi-threading with boost disabled for benchmarking, so we’re running exclusively at the long term power limits as shown. The 11800H is a tad faster for lightly-threaded workloads, but the performance difference is in the low single digits. Meanwhile, multi-thread performance ranges from about even, to up to 15 percent slower in the worst cases. We’re also seeing about a 10% performance improvement in Adobe After Effects when comparing the 11800H to the nvidia1080 10870H, which like many of the other CPU + GPU workloads puts us in the ballpark of AMD’s new processors. A lot of these applications rely heavily on GPU acceleration, so again, whether you go Ryzen or Intel this generation when you’re GPU bound. In the Puget Systems export test for Premiere, the 11800H is slightly slower than the 5800H configuration despite having a slightly faster GPU, but outside of that there don’t appear to be significant differences in this workload.
Chances are, any cooler you owned before won’t work with Threadripper’s TR4 or sTRX4 sockets , and the few air-cooling solutions available for Threadripper are, as mentioned earlier, enormous. It also doubles the memory channels from four to eight and works exclusively with error correcting code memory, important for fields such as scientific simulations, architecture, and high-end data analysis. It requires a different motherboard chipset, however, than ordinary Threadrippers, the WRX80.
Existing AMD owners with a 500-series motherboard will breathe a sigh of relief as the 5600X drops right into existing 500-series motherboards. If you need a new motherboard to support the chip, both 400- and 500-series motherboards are plentiful and relatively affordable, with the B550 lineup offering the best overall value for this class of chip. There isn’t huge gap between the Intel Core i7-8850H and Core i9-8950HK, as they’re both hexa-core processors that can process 12 threads at a time. However, the Core i9’s clock speed is slightly faster, and it’s overclockable (indicated by the “HK”), at 2.9 GHz or 4.8 GHz with Max Turbo, as opposed to the Core i7’s 2.6 GHz or 4.3 GHz with Max Turbo. The Core i7 can store only 9MB of cache, whereas the Core i9 can hold 12MB.
If all you care about is gaming and you prefer Intel chips, the Core i K is a speedy chip with plenty of overclocking headroom that nearly matches the gaming performance of Intel’s flagship Core i K. The Core i K sports eight cores and 16 threads, and can now be found for $375, though we expect we will see price reductions in the coming weeks as Intel responds to AMD’s faster Ryzen 5000-series processors. It also comes with integrated graphics, which isn’t an option with AMD’s 5000-series processors. The Core i H we’re reviewing today is Intel’s primary mainstream offering that will be used in the majority of mid-range to high-end laptops.
Although built on the same 14 nm silicon fabrication process, it innovates in four key areas. These are a back-port of “Sunny Cove” to the 14 nm node, and Intel claims they come with an IPC gain of up to 19%. Next up is the new Gen12 Xe LP integrated graphics available on non-F SKUs, which are claimed to be up to 50% faster than the previous Gen9.5 cores. The third key area is the I/O, with Intel introducing PCI-Express 4.0 support. In addition to a PCI-Express 4.0 x16 slot, these chips put out one processor-attached M.2 NVMe slot with the Gen 4 x4 interface. The DMI chipset bus has doubled in bandwidth when paired with Z590 or H570 chipsets, too.