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

Core i9-9980HK vs Ryzen 5 5500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500H beats the Core i9-9980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-9980HK 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.