Intel Core i9-10980HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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
7% slightly better overall score
4888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6654 points
2% slightly better gaming score
6523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4782 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
4398 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4670 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
4293 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points
131.31 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11641 points
6% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
10904 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

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
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% 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
357th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10980HK vs Ryzen 7 5825U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10980HK performs better than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5825U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U. Also, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5825U outputs less heat than Core i9-10980HK 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 7 5825U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.

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