Intel Core i9-9880H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Core i9-9880H vs Ryzen 5 7430U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7430U beats the Core i9-9880H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9880H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7430U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9880H. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i9-9880H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.