AMD Ryzen 3 4300U vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Ryzen 3 4300U vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 980 beats the Ryzen 3 4300U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 4300U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 4300U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 4300U. The info from our database shows that the Core i7 X 980 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4300U

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 4300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.