Intel Core i9-10980HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5234 points

5291 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6654 points

7096 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4782 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4670 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4589 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

129.09 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11641 points

8% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

10717 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.30 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 1,089

311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10980HK vs Ryzen 5 6600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 6600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.