Intel Core i9-9980HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-9980HK

AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3558 points

9% slightly better overall score

3249 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4626 points

3% slightly better gaming score

4467 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3403 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

2880 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3616 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

2792 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

132.90 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

104.16 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

3.30 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

480th of 1,089

505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9980HK vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9980HK beats the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9980HK. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.