Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7900 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.
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