Intel Core i9-10980HK vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 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

6502 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6654 points

7833 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4782 points

6045 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4670 points

5906 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

184.03 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10980HK vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 performs better than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 also has significantly 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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.