Intel Core i9-10980HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Core i9-10980HK vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE outputs less heat than Core i9-10980HK thanks to a slightly 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 5 PRO 5650GE has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.