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AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i3-540

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Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
Rank 2 - 34 %
Intel Core i3-540
Multi-core performance
Rank 1 - 100 %
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
Rank 2 - 12 %
Intel Core i3-540
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C / 16T · 4.40 GHz
1,659
Intel Core i3-540
2C / 4T · 3.06 GHz
470
Geekbench 6 Multi-Core

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz
7,405
Intel Core i3-540
2C / 4T · 3.06 GHz
952
Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C / 16T · 4.40 GHz
1,225
Intel Core i3-540
2C / 4T · 3.06 GHz
478
Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C / 16T · 4.00 GHz
7,911
Intel Core i3-540
2C / 4T · 3.06 GHz
1,141
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
1,792
Intel Core i3-540
Intel HD Graphics (Westmere)
35
CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C / 16T · 3.30 GHz
4,807
Intel Core i3-540
2C / 4T · 3.06 GHz
685

More benchmarks

At a glance

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
FamilyAMD Ryzen 9 (43)Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU groupAMD Ryzen 4000H (6)Intel Core i3 500 (4)
ArchitectureRenoir (Zen 2)Clarkdale
Technology7 nm32 nm
SegmentNotebookDesktop
SocketFP6LGA 1156
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
CPU Cores / Threads8 / 162 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT
Core architecturenormalnormal
Cores: 8x 2x
Frequency: 3.30 GHz 3.06 GHz
Turbo (1 Core): 4.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores): 4.00 GHz
L2-Cache0.50 MB
L3-Cache8.00 MB4.00 MB
Overclocking

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
GPU nameAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)Intel HD Graphics (Westmere)
GPU frequency0.40 - 1.75 GHz0.50 - 0.73 GHz
CUs / Shader8 / 51212 / 24
Raytracing
Max. displays32
Max. GPU Memory8 GB2 GB
Technology7 nm32 nm
Release dateQ1/2020Q1/2010

NPU AI performance

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
MemoryLPDDR4-4266 (51.2 GB/s)
DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory64 GB16 GB
Memory channels22
ECCYesYes
PCIe3.0 x 122.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth11.8 GB/s8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
TDP45 W73 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up54 W
TDP down35 W
T. junction max.105 °C

Technical details

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900HIntel Core i3-540
Chip designChipletMonolithic
AES-NI
Operating systemsWindows 10, Windows 11, LinuxWindows 10, Linux
Instruction setx86-64 (64 bit)x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensionsSSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release dateQ2/2020Q1/2010
Release price117 $
DocumentsTechnical data sheet

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AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C / 16T · 3.30 - 4.40 GHz
Intel Core i3-540
Intel Core i3-540
2C / 4T · 3.06 GHz

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