Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen 7 PRO 8700G specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7980XE is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8700G. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 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 PRO 8700G. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 PRO 8700G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8700G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 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.
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 i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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