Intel Core i9-7980XE vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE beats the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D outputs less heat than Core i9-7980XE thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.