AMD EPYC 7543P vs Intel Core i7-4980HQ

EPYC 7543P vs Core i7-4980HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 7543P beats the Core i7-4980HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores with 32 cores whereas the Core i7-4980HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4980HQ. According to our data, the EPYC 7543P and Core i7-4980HQ have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4980HQ outputs less heat than EPYC 7543P thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.