Intel Core i9-9980HK vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Core i9-9980HK vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U is faster than the Core i9-9980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Also, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Core i9-9980HK thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.