Intel Core i9-10900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Core i9-10900F vs Ryzen 9 5980HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900F beats the Ryzen 9 5980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900F has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5980HX outputs less heat than Core i9-10900F thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-10900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.