Intel Core i9-7980XE vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen 7 8700G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE beats the Ryzen 7 8700G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8700G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8700G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8700G 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.