Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 4900H

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 AMD Ryzen 9 4900H

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 and the AMD Ryzen 9 4900H and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 8 core processor released in Q2/2023 with the AMD Ryzen 9 4900H which has 8 CPU cores and was introduced in Q2/2020.
Qualcomm Snapdragon (102) Family AMD Ryzen 9 (35)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 (1) CPU group AMD Ryzen 4000H (6)
2 Generation 3
Kryo Gold / Kryo Silver Architecture Renoir (Zen 2)
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 is a 8 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.20 GHz. The processor can compute 8 threads at the same time. The AMD Ryzen 9 4900H clocks with 3.30 GHz (4.40 GHz), has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8 Cores 8
8 Threads 16
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.20 GHz
2x Cortex-A78
A-Core 3.30 GHz (4.40 GHz)
2.00 GHz
6x Cortex-A55
B-Core --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
Qualcomm AI engine AI hardware --
Hexagon AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

Qualcomm Adreno 613 GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
0.96 GHz GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
0.96 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.75 GHz
-- GPU Generation 9
Technology 7 nm
2 Max. displays 3
-- Compute units 8
-- Shader 512
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
12.1 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Qualcomm Adreno 613 GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

Up to GB of memory in a maximum of 2 memory channels is supported by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2, while the AMD Ryzen 9 4900H supports a maximum of 64 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s enabled.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
LPDDR4X-4266, LPDDR5-6400 Memory LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200
Max. Memory 64 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
51.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 8.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 12
-- PCIe Bandwidth 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 has a TDP of --. The TDP of the AMD Ryzen 9 4900H is 45 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 45 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 54 W
-- TDP down 35 W
-- Tjunction max. 105 °C

Technical details

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 has 0.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 4 nm. The cache of AMD Ryzen 9 4900H is at 8.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 7 nm.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
4 nm Technology 7 nm
Chiplet Chip design Chiplet
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
-- Socket FP6
None Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
No AES-NI Yes
Android, Windows 10 (ARM) Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q2/2023 Release date Q2/2020
-- Release price --
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Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1284 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
11061 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1225 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
7911 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1659 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
7405 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
501 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
4332 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
Qualcomm Adreno 613 @ 0.96 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.75 GHz
1792 (100%)

Blender 3.1 Benchmark

In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
148 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
19330 (100%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
202 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
4807 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
204 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 4 Gen 2
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
1937 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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