Intel Core i5-10500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Core i5-10500 vs Ryzen 9 5980HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5980HX beats the Core i5-10500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10500. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5980HX outputs less heat than Core i5-10500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The Ryzen 9 5980HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.