Intel Core i9-7980XE vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10174 points
10538 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8591 points
9595 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10736 points
10967 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10962 points
11265 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

376.16 points
468.88 points
24% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
12% slightly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
12% slightly more threads
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
55 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1152 KiB
12% slightly more L1 cache
1024 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

75 MiB
17% slightly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

89th of 1,114
80th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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