Intel Core i9-10980HK vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i9-10980HK vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10980HK. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10980HK. Also, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9955HX CPU because of its 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 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.