Intel Core i9-9980HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Core i9-9980HK vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9980HK performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9980HK. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.