AMD Ryzen 9 4900U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The AMD Ryzen 9 4900U has 8 cores with 16 threads and is based on the 3. gen of the AMD Ryzen 9 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the FP6 socket and was released in Q1/2020. The AMD Ryzen 9 4900U scores 1,203 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 6,422 points.
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the AMD Ryzen 9 4900U. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the AMD Ryzen 9 4900U.

Name: AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
Family: AMD Ryzen 9 (34)
CPU group: AMD Ryzen 4000U (11)
Architecture: Renoir (Zen 2)
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 3
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 9 4900U has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 9 4900U is 2.00 GHz (4.40 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 8 / 16
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 8x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (8 Cores): 3.40 GHz

Internal Graphics

The AMD Ryzen 9 4900U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the AMD Ryzen 9 4900U uses the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir), which has 512 texture shaders and 8 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
GPU frequency: 0.40 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.75 GHz
Compute units: 8
Shader: 512
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q1/2020
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9
Direct X: 12
Technology: 7 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 8 GB
Frame Generation: No

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
LPDDR4-4266
DDR4-3200
51.2 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth: 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 15 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: 25 W
TDP down: 10 W
Tjunction max.: 105 °C

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 4900U is made in 7 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 8.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 7 nm
Chip design: Chiplet
Socket: FP6
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 8.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date: Q1/2020
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: --

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 9 4900U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


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.
Intel Core i9-10885H Intel Core i9-10885H
8C 16T @ 5.30 GHz
1283
AMD Ryzen 9 3900 AMD Ryzen 9 3900
12C 24T @ 4.30 GHz
1281
Intel Core i9-7980XE Intel Core i9-7980XE
18C 36T @ 4.20 GHz
1281
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1279
AMD EPYC 7453 AMD EPYC 7453
28C 56T @ 3.45 GHz
1277
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX
64C 128T @ 4.20 GHz
1276
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX
32C 64T @ 4.20 GHz
1276

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.
AMD Ryzen 5 4600G AMD Ryzen 5 4600G
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
1206
Intel Core i5-9600 Intel Core i5-9600
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
1206
Intel Xeon W-2175 Intel Xeon W-2175
14C 28T @ 4.30 GHz
1206
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
1203
Intel Xeon W-2225 Intel Xeon W-2225
4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz
1203
Intel Xeon W-3275 Intel Xeon W-3275
28C 56T @ 4.60 GHz
1203
Intel Xeon W-3275M Intel Xeon W-3275M
28C 56T @ 4.60 GHz
1203

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.
AMD Ryzen 5 4500 AMD Ryzen 5 4500
6C 12T @ 3.60 GHz
6432
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
8C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
6431
Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz
6428
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
6422
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
6422
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
6422
Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz
6422

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.
Intel Core i7-10875H Intel Core i7-10875H
8C 16T @ 5.10 GHz
506
Intel Core i9-10910 Intel Core i9-10910
10C 20T @ 5.00 GHz
503
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
12C 24T @ 4.60 GHz
502
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
501
AMD Ryzen 9 4900H AMD Ryzen 9 4900H
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
501
Intel Core i5-10600KF Intel Core i5-10600KF
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
501
Intel Core i5-10600K Intel Core i5-10600K
6C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
501

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.
Intel Core i5-1235U Intel Core i5-1235U
10C 12T @ 2.50 GHz
3321
AMD Ryzen 5 4400GE AMD Ryzen 5 4400GE
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
3305
Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3
12C 24T @ 2.90 GHz
3299
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
3292
AMD Ryzen 5 4600H AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
3247
Intel Core i3-12100F Intel Core i3-12100F
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
3204
Intel Core i3-12100 Intel Core i3-12100
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
3204

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.
Intel Core i5-1340P Intel Core i5-1340P
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.45 GHz
1797
Intel Core i5-13500H Intel Core i5-13500H
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.45 GHz
1797
Intel Core i5-13505H Intel Core i5-13505H
Intel Iris Xe Graphics 80 (Alder Lake) @ 1.45 GHz
1797
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.75 GHz
1792
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 2.00 GHz
1792
AMD Ryzen 5 7530U AMD Ryzen 5 7530U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Renoir) @ 2.00 GHz
1792
AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS Creator Edition
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.75 GHz
1792

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.
Intel Core i3-10320 Intel Core i3-10320
4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz
206
Intel Xeon W-2235 Intel Xeon W-2235
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz
206
Intel Xeon E-2276M Intel Xeon E-2276M
6C 12T @ 4.70 GHz
205
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
204
AMD Ryzen 7 4700 AMD Ryzen 7 4700
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
204
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
204
AMD Ryzen 7 4700G AMD Ryzen 7 4700G
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
204

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.
Intel Xeon E5-2648L v3 Intel Xeon E5-2648L v3
12C 24T @ 2.20 GHz
1404
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 AMD Ryzen 7 1700
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
1403
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700 AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
1403
AMD Ryzen 9 4900U AMD Ryzen 9 4900U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
1384
Intel Xeon W-2135 Intel Xeon W-2135
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
1382
Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz
1381
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
1380

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