AMD Ryzen 3 5300G vs Intel Core i9-10980HK

Ryzen 3 5300G vs Core i9-10980HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Ryzen 3 5300G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 5300G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 5300G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10980HK outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 5300G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i9-10980HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 3 5300G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.