Intel Core i9-9980HK vs AMD EPYC 7543P

Core i9-9980HK vs EPYC 7543P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9980HK beats the EPYC 7543P in overall performance. Despite this, the EPYC 7543P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores than the Core i9-9980HK. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has 32 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9980HK. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9980HK CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 7543P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the EPYC 7543P has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9980HK. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.