AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i7 X 980 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300U beats the Core i7 X 980 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 980 in all gaming tests too.

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 5300U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. In terms of cache, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U

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