Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Core i5-11600 vs Ryzen 9 5980HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5980HX is faster than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 9 5980HX outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. 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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.