Intel Core i9-11900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Core i9-11900K vs Ryzen 9 5980HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11900K beats the Ryzen 9 5980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

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 i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX. The Ryzen 9 5980HX outputs less heat than Core i9-11900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.