Intel Core i9-7980XE vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE beats the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7980XE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 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.